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accession number:	1916.794
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Portrait of an Old Man, mid-1500s. Attributed to Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500-1572). Oil on wood; framed: 120.7 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (47 1/2 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 92.4 x 63.5 cm (36 3/8 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.794

title:				Portrait of an Old Man
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creation date:			mid-1500s
creation date earliest:		1525
creation date latest:		1575
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creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500-1572)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 120.7 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (47 1/2 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 92.4 x 63.5 cm (36 3/8 x 25 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

	title:		The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
	opening date:   1936-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Boston, 1883. American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Maufctures: Art Department, "Jarves Collection," cat. no. 426. <br>The Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition, Jan. 1884, no. 13<br>CMA: The Inaugural Exhibition, cat. no. 39, (as Venetian School, 16th century...very much in the manner of Tintoretto), 1916&#9;<br>CMA: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, no. 79 (as Giulio Campi?), 1936

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PROVENANCE

	Gino Capponi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
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	James Jackson Jarves
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	Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1883, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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digital description: 
Part of a distinguished family of Northern northern Italian painters, Campi depicts his sitter with an unidealized face dominated by carefully observed wrinkles. He stares out intently while grasping what may be a letter with its paper seal broken in his right hand. Despite this intense gaze the figure does not establish a lively connection with the viewer, and his mood remains distant and reserved, in keeping with Renaissance ideas about elegant comportment. Though his costume appears plain, the sumptuous black fabric was indicative of high status in some parts of Europe. --Michele Frederick (December 2011)

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p 315; Mentioned: p. 314
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	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 36, cat. no. 39
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n46

	Moro, Franco and Filippo Maria Ferro. <em>Caravaggio sconosciuto: le origini del Merisi, eccellente disegnatore, maestro di ritratti e di cose naturali</em>. Torino : Umberto Allemandi, 2016.
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	Cifani, Arabella. "Un Esploratore Solitario nei Territori Ignoti di Caravaggio." <em>Il giornale dell'arte</em> 34, no.370 (December 2016).
	page number: 	Mentioned: 23-[25]; Reproduced: p. [25], top row, last image
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