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The Portrait of a Cardinal is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It is housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The Cardinal has been identified as either Alidosi Bibbiena Cybo or Trivulzio in the court of Pope Julius II. Painted in Rome Rafael mastered the art of realism in his paintings the ability to “paint people as more real than they really are” as his peers put it.
