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‘Portraiture developed during the Renaissance from the Gothic depiction of people as generalised types to the representation of individuals whose character and personalities were expressed in their faces. Increasingly, Italian artists attempted to portray their subjects accurately and even revived the ancient Roman practice of obtaining a likeness from a life or death mask cast in plaster. This method was especially popular with sculptors. But unflinching realism was avoided; Italian portraiture was also influenced by profiles on Roman coins and by Roman sculpted portrait busts.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 634

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