# St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád

- By: Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581–1664)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Alexander A. McKay Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8104)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/999133a7382c120656f5f88569b91cf7.jpg
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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.

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