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The Portrait That May Depict Cervantes - Spanish C1

How the RAE separates iconographic tradition, attributed authorship and an unproven sitter identity.

El retrato que quizá representa a Cervantes

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Uses supposed portrait, attributed to Juan de Jáuregui and perhaps to distance the account from an unproven tradition.

The portrait's traditional name has cultural force, while authorship, provenance and sitter remain separate questions.

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