id:			125251
accession number:	1947.210
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.210
updated:		2025-07-15 11:03:25.701000

Portrait of a Prelate, mid-1500s. Girolamo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1501–1556). Oil on canvas; framed: 171 x 138.5 x 12.5 cm (67 5/16 x 54 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); unframed: 140.4 x 108 cm (55 1/4 x 42 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1947.210

title:				Portrait of a Prelate
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creation date:			mid-1500s
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1556
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Girolamo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1501–1556)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 171 x 138.5 x 12.5 cm (67 5/16 x 54 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 140.4 x 108 cm (55 1/4 x 42 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscription on book: MUNDOS LIBENTER ASPICIT
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Venetian Tradition
	opening date:   1956-11-08T05:00:00
	<i>The Venetian Tradition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. by Henry S. Francis, cat. no. 55 (Note: the second part of the inscription given in the catalogue is non-existent).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	By 1946 Italico Brass (Venice, Italy)
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	Alessandro Brass (Venice, Italy), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947.
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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. 324; Mentioned: p. 325
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	Francis, Henry. "Venetian Art and Its Field of Influence." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>38, no. 2 (February 1951): 21-27, 30-35, 38-40
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 23-24; Reproduced: p. 27
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141687

	Pattanaro, Alessandra, and Girolamo da Carpi. Girolamo da Carpi. 2021, 245.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 245 RA3.
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	<em>Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 .</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 58
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952

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IMAGES

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