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Portrait of Maddalena Doni
The Portrait of Maddalena Doni is an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Raphael, made in 1506. It is housed in the Pitti Palace in Florence.
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The portrait is one of a pair that depict a recently married merchant and his wife.
Agnolo Doni married Maddalena Strozzi in 1503, but Raphael's portraits were probably executed in 1506, the period in which the painter studied the art of Leonardo da Vinci most closely. The composition of the portraits resembles that of the "
Doni Tondo
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. (Two other panel paintings, generally agreed to be by Michelangelo but unfinished, the "Entombment" and the so-called "Manchester Madonna", are both in the National Gallery in London.) Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its original frame, the "Doni Tondo" was probably commissioned by Agnolo Doni to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi, the daughter of