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The
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
is an
oil painting
on canvas completed around 1515 by the
Italian
High Renaissance
painter
Raphael
. It depicts Bindo Altoviti, a rich banker born of
Florentine
origin who was in his mid-twenties when he commissioned this work. The painting remained in Altoviti's family until the 1800s, and after a series of sales it was ultimately acquired by the
National Gallery of Art
in
Washington, D.C.
Painting:
Raphael
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