Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours

Raphael

What you practise here

Renaissance portrait: crisp facial planes and gaze

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Lucretia Raphael - Two Studies of Drapery, WA1846.184 Raphael - Recto Study of Drapery for a standing Figure (Study for the Disputa), WA1846.185 [PIEDI] Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child [SCHIENA] Raphael - Verso A standing male nude, seen from behind, and studies of arms, 1860,0616.94 [SCHIENA] Raphael - formerly attributed to - Verso Nude Man seen from behind, and other studies, WA1846.259