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Young Knight in a Landscape
is a painting by the
Italian Renaissance
artist
Vittore Carpaccio
. Dated 1510, it has been called the earliest full-length portrait in
Western painting
. The identity of its subject has been debated, with proposed sitters including the
Duke of Urbino
,
Francesco Maria I della Rovere
; as well as the Venetian patrician
Marco Gabriel
. It is now held by the
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
in
Madrid
.
Painting:
Vittore Carpaccio
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