Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Portrait of a Young Betrothed or Husband
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Portrait of a Young Betrothed or Husband
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Alternate Title:
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Ritratto di giovane fidanzato o sposo
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Image View:
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Overall view with frame
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Creator:
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attributed to Antonio da Crevalcore (Italian painter, active 1478, died before 1525)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Correr (Venice, Veneto, Italy) Cl. I n. 0053
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Location Note:
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Piazza San Marco 52
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GPS:
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+45.4339+12.3375
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Date:
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ca. 1475 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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51 cm (height) x 37 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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portrait; profile portrait; marriage portrait
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Description:
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The museum label lists the work as tempera, the online catalog says oil painting. The profile view, which was favored in ancient coins, was frequently adopted in the fifteenth century. A portrait was often commissioned at a significant moment in someone’s life, such as betrothal, marriage, or elevation to an office. The man is portrayed against a green curtain partly open on a sea town. The presence of the prayer book on the windowsill with the ring and the pearl supports the idea of a marriage portrait and also that it was originally a diptych, with the betrothed woman portrayed in the missing panel. (Source: Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia [online collection database]; http://www.archiviodellacomunicazione.it/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-CREVA-MC-PG-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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