id: 110566 accession number: 1929.133 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.133 updated: 2023-03-25 11:14:21.178000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1636 creation date earliest: 1631 creation date latest: 1641 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581?-1644) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 12, 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936: "20th Anniversary Exhibition," cat. no. 166. * San Francisco, California, California Palace of Legion of Honor, June 24-July 24, 1938: "Venetian Paintings XV through XVIII Century" * Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, March 1940: "Four Centuries of Venetian Painting," catalogue no. 46, plate 46. * New York, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, October 8-November 5, 1967: "Bernardo Strozzi, Paintings and Drawings," cat. no. 30, repr. p. 73. * 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) --- PROVENANCE Italico Brass (Venice, Italy), sold through Harold Parsons to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: During the 1630s, the Genoese artist Bernardo Strozzi painted a number of female figures representing various intellectual and artistic pursuits, reflecting the appeal of such allegories among learned patrons in northern Italy. Recent scholarship has convincingly identified the subject of this painting as Minerva. The Roman goddess of war has put aside her armor for more contemplative pursuits; her upward gaze—as if seeking inspiration—recalls her other associations with wisdom, eloquence, and the arts. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: "Cleveland Acquires Strozzi Minerva." ARTnews (April 6, 1929): 13.
Published as Minerva. page number: Mentioned: P. 13 url: "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 url: The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XVII, no.3 (March, 1930).49-56. page number: Mentioned: p. 55; Reproduced: p. 53 url: 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 url: Hitchcock, Henry Russell, Jr. "The St. Catherine by Bernardo Strozzi." Bulletin of the Wadsworth Atheneum IX (1931): 13-15. page number: Mentioned: P. 15 url: Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York: E. Wyhe, 1933. page number: Reproduced: Vol. III, pl. 582 url: "Bibliografia dell'Arte Italiana." L'Arte (Gennaio 1934): 78-98. page number: Mentioned: P. 79 url: 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 url: 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 url: "The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34, no. 37 (June 13, 1936): 6-14. page number: Mentioned: P. 10 url: Arslan, Edoardo. "Quattro Piccoli Contributi." Critica d'Arte III (1938): 75-79. page number: Mentioned: P. 77, n. 9 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland],1945. page number: Reproduced: P. 53 url: 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 url: Mortari, Luia. "Su Bernardo Strozzi." Bollettino d'Arte XL (1955): 311-333. page number: Mentioned: P. 328 url: 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 url: 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 url: Matteucci Armandi, Anna Maria. Bernardo Strozzi. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966. page number: Reproduced: Pl. VI url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 201, no. 532 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 url: 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.133/1929.133_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.133/1929.133_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.133/1929.133_full.tif