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St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád
Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581–1664)
1633
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 130.3 × 100 cm (51 1/4 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 158.8 × 130.8 × 10.2 cm (62 1/2 × 51 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Alexander A. McKay Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
A native of Genoa, Bernardo Strozzi was largely a self-trained artist. He formed his style by observing and combining features from other prominent artists: Peter Paul Ruben's rich textures and the dramatic lighting employed by followers of Caravaggio. In 1630 or 1631 Strozzi settled in Venice, where a member of the Sagredo family likely commissioned this painting. It commemorates their saintly ancestor Gerardo Sagredo, a Benedictine monk who became Bishop of Csanád, a region straddling present-day Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
