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This gave family members, whether living or dead, a permanent presence in the home. The unnamed gentleman from the noble Navagero family is shown in the official robes and stole of a procurator, one of the most senior magistrates in Venice.","physicalDescription":"The man is completely bald with a short square beard. His head is turned to the left, wearing a patterned robe with a high collar. 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While he worked in many media and genres, his portraits have enjoyed particular critical acclaim since Vasari first praised them. \r\nVittoria popularised the genre of the portrait bust in Venice during the second half of the sixteenth century, transforming it into the dominant mode of sculptured portraiture, and exerted a near monopoly on its production. \r\nThe culture promulgated by artists, patrons and intellectuals in Renaissance Venice allowed Vittoria's gift as a portraitist to flourish. \r\nThe demand for portraits busts coincides with the introduction of the classicizing busts in Venice, a genre in which Vittoria specialized. A \"all'antica\" portrait not only showed devotion to the classical past, it also marked another stage in Venice's quest during the sixteenth century to invest itself with antique auctoritas. 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