Portrait of a Young Man (Iravani)
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Portrait of a young man [1] or The young man [2] is a mid-nineteenth century watercolor painting by Mirza Gadim Iravani, an Azerbaijani painter.[3] The painting is stored in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan in Baku. The ornamentality is thoroughly harmonized with volumetric and plastic modeling of the shape[2] as in other paintings by Iravani. Although the portrait was closely related to traditions of the medieval oriental miniature, the artist's interest in the external appearance of a man portrayed in the three-dimensional space of a concrete interior illustrates a crucial development in the Azerbaijani visual arts of the time.[3]