Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Allegorical portrait of Girolama Santacroce Conti as Vanitas
Alternate Title:
Ritratto allegorico di Gerolama Santacroce Conti
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Pompeo Batoni (Italian painter, 1708-1787)
Location:
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza di S. Pantaleo, 10
GPS:
41.8973 12.4729
Date:
1760 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
49 cm (height) x 120 cm (width)
Subjects:
allegory; portrait
Description:
The sitter has been identified as Duchess Gerolama Santacroce, wife of Michelangelo Conti, Duke of Poli. The picture was probably painted shortly after their wedding. The duchess is shown in a dressing gown at her toilet, but items have been included to allude to the Flemish theme of Vanitas. The mirror, pearls and extinguished candle point to the transience of beauty, youth and wealth. (Source: Museo di Roma (Palazzo Braschi) [website]; http://en.museodirom a.it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-BATO-MOR-RA-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Allegorical portrait of Girolama Santacroce Conti as Vanitas