Tag: Italia

Cento (Italia)

Museums: • Civica Pinacoteca Il Guercino: Via Giacomo Matteotti, 16, 44042 Cento FE Births: • Guercino (1591-1666) See also: • Cities | Italia

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Guercino

(1591–1666) Giovanni Francesco Barbieri The artist’s works: La Veronica 1600 Fondazione Carige, Genova Visione di santa Chiara 1615–1621 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Susanna e i vecchioni 1617 Museo del Prado, Madrid Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli c.1617–1618 National Gallery, London…

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Ritratto di Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani (c.1595)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani (Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 114.62 x 94.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Ginevra Aldrovandi’s husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly…

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Ritratto di nobildonna (c.1580)

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) Ritratto di nobildonna (Portrait of a Noblewoman) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Marriage Portrait of a Bolognese Noblewoman (Livia de’ Medici Bandini?) illustrates Lavinia Fontana’s ability to…

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Autoritratto alla spinetta (1577)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Autoritratto alla spinetta (Self-portrait at the spinet) 1577 Oil on canvas, 27 x 23.8 cm Accademia di San Luca, Roma Inscription: LAVINIA VIRGO PROSPERI FONTANAE FILIA EX SPECULO IMMAGINEM ORIS SUI EXPRESSIT ANNO MDLXXVII (Lavinia, virgin, daughter of…

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Minerva in atto di abbigliarsi (1613)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Minerva in atto di abbigliarsi (Minerva Dressing) 1613 Oil on canvas, 258 x 190 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work, which dates back to 1613, was painted in Rome, evoked here through the dome of St. Peter’s visible…

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