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accession number: 1929.133
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Allegorical Figure, c. 1636. Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581?-1644). Oil on canvas; framed: 178.5 x 133.5 x 12 cm (70 1/4 x 52 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 145.8 x 99.8 cm (57 3/8 x 39 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1929.133
title: Allegorical Figure
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creation date: c. 1636
creation date earliest: 1631
creation date latest: 1641
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creditline: Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581?-1644) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 178.5 x 133.5 x 12 cm (70 1/4 x 52 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 145.8 x 99.8 cm (57 3/8 x 39 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00
Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: Bernardo Strozzi, Paintings and Drawings
opening date: 1967-10-08T04:00:00
Bernardo Strozzi, Paintings and Drawings. Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY (organizer) (October 8-November 5, 1967).
title: Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644
opening date: 1995-05-06T04:00:00
Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. Palazzo Ducale (Genova), Genova, Italy (May 6-August 6, 1995); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (September 10-November 26, 1995).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'San Francisco, California, California Palace of Legion of Honor, June 24-July 24, 1938: "Venetian Paintings XV through XVIII Century"', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, March 1940: "Four Centuries of Venetian Painting," catalogue no. 46, plate 46.', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'CMA, 1980: "Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism," Gallery J, February 19-March 23, 1980, fig. 52,p. 46. (not exhibited)', 'opening_date': '1980-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Collection of Italico Brass, Venice, Italy)
date: Until 1929
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Sold from the Italico Brass collection, Venice, with the assistance of Harold Woodbury Parsons to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1929
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1929 -
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RELATED WORKS
id: 130937
Allegorical Figure, c. 1635. Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581?-1644). Black chalk with red chalk ; sheet: 37.3 x 26.2 cm (14 11/16 x 10 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.626
relationship: based on
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CITATIONS
Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. XXXII, p. 208
url:
Milliken, William M. "Minerva by Bernardo Strozzi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XVI, no.4 (April, 1929): 63-66.
page number: Reproduced: p. 61, detail; p. 62
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Siple, Ella S. "Art in America, Italian Baroque Painting." The Burlington Magazine LV (1929): 105-106.
page number: Mentioned: P. 105; reproduced: Pl. A
url:
"Cleveland Gets Gem By Rococo Master." Art Digest III, no. 14 (April 1929): 15.
Published as Minerva.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15
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"Cleveland Acquires Strozzi Minerva." ARTnews (April 6, 1929): 13.
Published as Minerva.
page number: Mentioned: P. 13
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"La Vie Artistique a l'Etranger." La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne LVI (June 1929): 267-275,
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 269-270
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The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XVII, no.3 (March, 1930).49-56.
page number: Mentioned: p. 55; Reproduced: p. 53
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Freund, Frank E. W. "Ausstellungen und Heuerwerbungen der Amerikanischen Museen." Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers und Sammlers XXII, no. 5 (1930): 121-129.
page number: Reproduced: P. 138
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Hitchcock, Henry Russell, Jr. "The St. Catherine by Bernardo Strozzi." Bulletin of the Wadsworth Atheneum IX (1931): 13-15.
page number: Mentioned: P. 15
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Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York: E. Wyhe, 1933.
page number: Reproduced: Vol. III, pl. 582
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"Bibliografia dell'Arte Italiana." L'Arte (Gennaio 1934): 78-98.
page number: Mentioned: P. 79
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Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: The Art news, 1936.
page number: Reproduced: no. 133, pl. XXXVI
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: Mentioned: no. 166; reproduced: pl. XXXVI
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"The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34, no. 37 (June 13, 1936): 6-14.
page number: Mentioned: P. 10
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Arslan, Edoardo. "Quattro Piccoli Contributi." Critica d'Arte III (1938): 75-79.
page number: Mentioned: P. 77, n. 9
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland],1945.
page number: Reproduced: P. 53
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Francis, Henry S. "A Pieta by Bernardo Strozzi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XL, no. 8 (October, 1953):182-183.
page number: Mentioned: p. 182-183
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Mortari, Luia. "Su Bernardo Strozzi." Bollettino d'Arte XL (1955): 311-333.
page number: Mentioned: P. 328
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Francis, Henry S. "A Drawing for Strozzi's Minerva." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIII, no. 6 (June, 1956):123-126.
page number: Reproduced: p. 125
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 423
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n78
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 114
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n138
Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1966.
page number: Mentioned: p. 61, 99, 173; Reproduced: p. 224, fig. 408
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Matteucci Armandi, Anna Maria. Bernardo Strozzi. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: Pl. VI
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 114
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n138
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 193, 473, 573
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 136
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n156
Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 45-46; Reproduced: fig. 52
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Pallucchini, Rodolfo, and Maria Maddalena Palmegiano. La pittura veneziana del Seicento. Venezia, Italy: Alfieri, 1981.
page number: Reproduced: p. 160, vol. I
url:
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. 420; Mentioned: p. 421-422
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Pesenti, Franco Renzo. La pittura in Liguria: artisti del primo seicento. Genoa, Italy: Cassa di risparmio di Genova e Imperia, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 64, fig. 36
url:
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 229
url:
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Storia di Venezia--temi. Roma, Italy: Instituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1994.
page number: Reproduced p. 160
url:
Spicer, Joaneath, Peter M. Lukehart, and Martha Lucy. Bernardo Strozzi: Master Painter of the Italian Baroque (1581/2-1644). Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Gallery, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: no. 25
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Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 201, no. 532
url:
Strozzi, Bernardo, Ezia Gavazza, Giovanna Nepi Sciré, Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello, and Giuliana Algeri. Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. Milano: Electa, 1995.
page number: cat. no. 103, pp. 62, 222-23, 304-05
url:
Cuccia, Antonio. "La Prima Maturita Di Pietro Novelli. Contributi All'attivita Giovanile/ Antonio Cuccia." Bollettino d’arte del Ministero della educazione nazionale 108, Serie VI (Aprile-Giugno 1999): 19-56.
page number: Reproduced: P. 51, fig. 49
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 56, fig. 1
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Orlando, Anna, and Stefano Magnasco. Stefano Magnasco: e la cerchia di Valerio Castello. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy: Silvana, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 241
url:
Manzitti, Camillo. Bernardo Strozzi. Torino, Italy: U. Allemandi, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p. 70, 218, 326
url:
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