id: 97168
accession number: 1916.804
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Portrait of Roberto Castiglione, early 1600s. Italy, Cremona, 17th century. Oil on canvas; framed: 147.3 x 120.6 x 10.2 cm (58 x 47 1/2 x 4 in.); unframed: 121.2 x 98.7 cm (47 11/16 x 38 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.804
title: Portrait of Roberto Castiglione
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creation date: early 1600s
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1625
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creditline: Holden Collection
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culture: Italy, Cremona, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
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measurements: Framed: 147.3 x 120.6 x 10.2 cm (58 x 47 1/2 x 4 in.); Unframed: 121.2 x 98.7 cm (47 11/16 x 38 7/8 in.)
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inscription: inscribed at bottom: ROBERTUS CASTILLIONEUS CREMONAE PRETOR ET IMPERIALIS VICARIUS AN D MCCXXXXVI
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Inaugural Exhibition
opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Boston, "American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department, Jarves Collection," no. 434.
Cleveland, 1894: "Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition," no. 7.
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PROVENANCE
James Jackson Jarves;
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Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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digital description:
The inscription on the bottom of this painting identifies the sitter of this commemorative portrait as Roberto Castiglione, a magistrate and imperial vicar for the Spanish empire in the 1200s. His identity is further supported by the coat of arms in the upper left. A red shield ornamented by a lion holding a castle with three towers in his right paw, the crest belongs to the Castiglione family, which was primarily based in Milan, but had branches in Cremona as well. His gloved left hand holds a prayer book and the glove for his bare right hand, which holds back the fur trim of his mantle.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 453; Mentioned: p. 452
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Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
page number: Mentioned: p. 25-26, cat. no. 22
url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n35
G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34.
page number: Reproduced: Cover; mentioned: p. 20
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067
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