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Long before there was cosmetic surgery, there were idealized self-portraits. And long before there was a Divine Miss M, there was a Divine Mr. R: Raphael, the Renaissance artist extraordinaire.
So extraordinary was Raphael that he wanted to improve upon what God gave him. According to a recent theory, the painter gave himself a “nose job” while fashioning his own image.
The aquiline nose that appears within Raphael’s famous self-portrait differs noticeably from facial reconstructions of the artist’s alleged skull. Molecular biologist Mattia Falconi calls the bony nose “more prominent.”
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