Better Treasure

500 Years Ago The Italian painter Raphael might have stood at his easel in a candlelit Roman workshop in the early 16th century, carefully layering paint onto the canvas that would become his Portrait of a Young Man. Completed at the height of his career, the piece would remain in his studio for several years among countless others from his prolific life. Hailed as one of the Italian Renaissance’s crowning achievements (and possibly a self-portrait of the painter himself) Portrait of a Yo...