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"title": "The Venetian Tradition",
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"title": "Italian Prints and Drawings",
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"title": "Drawings",
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"description": "possibly to Strozzi's pupil Ermanno Stroiffi (1616-1693), Venice",
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"description": "with Hans M. Calmann (1899-1982), London",
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"id": 110566,
"description": "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",
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"did_you_know": "Drawings by Bernardo Strozzi are exceedingly scarce, especially full worked-up preparatory drawings such as this study for Minerva.",
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"description": "The Genoese painter Bernardo Strozzi drew this female figure in preparation for one of his major oil paintings, also in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1929.133). Recent scholarship has convincingly identified the subject as Minerva. The Roman goddess of war has put aside her armor for more contemplative pursuits; her upward gaze\u2014as if seeking inspiration\u2014recalls her other associations with wisdom, eloquence, and the arts. The figure is one of a number of single female figures associated with intellectual and artistic pursuits made by Strozzi in the 1630s when he lived and worked in Venice. Such works appealed to his learned patrons in northern Italy.",
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"citation": "Turner, Jane S., ed. The Dictionary of Art, vol. 29. New York: Grove, 1996.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 784",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 41, n. 76",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.\" Art Quarterly 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1956): 302-306.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 306; Reproduced: p. 304",
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"citation": "Comstock, Helen. \"A Drawing by Bernardo Strozzi.\" The Connoisseur 138, no. 557 (November 1956): 211-212.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 211-212; Reproduced: p. 212",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"A Drawing for Strozzi's 'Minerva.' \" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 6 (June 1956): 123-126.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 123-126; Reproduced: p. 124",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142136"
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"citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 41, no. 76",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "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. 573",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n107"
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"citation": "Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Art in Italy 1600-1700. Detroit, MI: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 177-178; Reproduced: p. 177, n. 204",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Mahon, Denis. \"Stock-taking in Seicento Studies.\" Apollo 82, no. 45 (November 1965): 378-391.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 386; Reproduced: p. 384, n. 8",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "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. 115",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n139"
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"citation": "Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. [Rome]: De Luca, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 61, 99, 219; Reproduced: n. 474",
"url": null
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"citation": "Matteucci, Anna Maria. Bernardo Strozzi. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 7, n. 4",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Milkovich, M. Bernardo Strozzi: Paintings and Drawings. Binghamton, NY: University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 12, 72, 86; Reproduced: p. 87, n. 37",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "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. 115",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139"
},
{
"citation": "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"
},
{
"citation": "Meder, Joseph. The Mastery of Drawing, vol. 2. Translated by Winslow Ames. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 302; Reproduced: n. 153",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 45-47; Reproduced: p. 46, n. 51",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pignatti, Terisio. Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia: catalogo, vol. 1. Vicenza: Nera Pozzi, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lurie, Ann T., ed. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part Three. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 421, n. 184a",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 93",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991"
},
{
"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 229",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Newcome, Mary. \"Oil Sketches and Drawings by Strozzi.\" antichit\u00e0 viva 32, no. 6 (1993): 14-24.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 21",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Gavazza, Ezia, Giovanna Nepi Scir\u00e9, and Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello. Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. Milan: Electa, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 222, 280-281, 304; Reproduced: p. 305",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Rome: De Luca, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 201; Reproduced: p. 223, n. 2",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, 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: P. 56; Reproduced: P. 57, cat. no. 18",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Orlando, Anna, and Daniele Sanguineti. Bernardo Strozzi, 1582-1644: la conquista del colore. Sagep editori, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.360-365, fig.7",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Bober, Jonathan, Piero Boccardo, and Franco Boggero. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750. National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 2020.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 130-131, n.15",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Bober, Jonathan, Piero Boccardo, and Franco Boggero. Superbarocco: arte a Genova da Rubens a Magnasco. Milano : Skira, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 292, 297; reproduced: p. 296, no. 82",
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