Bernardo Strozzi

Cappuccio, il

Genoese-Venetian, 1581/1582 - 1644

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Italian painter (1581-1644)

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Bernardo Strozzi, Bishop Alvise Grimani, 1633 or after, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.41

Bishop Alvise Grimani

Bernardo Strozzi · 1633 or after · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.41

Bernardo Strozzi, A Standing Man with Cloak and Gloves, 1630s, red chalk on laid paper, Gift of Silvana Tagliavini Bareggi in memory of Riccardo Bareggi, 2015.148.1

A Standing Man with Cloak and Gloves

Bernardo Strozzi · 1630s · red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.148.1

Shown from the waist up, a man with pale, peachy skin and wearing a monk’s robe rests his elbows on a rock with his hands together in prayer in this vertical painting. He is lit from our left, and the background and edges of the composition are mostly in deep shadow. The man’s body and head lean to our left, and he looks at us with dark eyes under gathered brows. He has a long, straight nose, high cheekbones, and his pink lips are parted. He has a dark moustache, and his hair is cut into a ring around his close-cropped crown. He wears a brown hooded robe, and a string of rosary beads hangs from his joined hands. A slender crucifix leaning against a stone in front of him is obscured at the top by what might be a swath of white fabric. The top part of a skull, its surface a golden brown, sits on our side of the rocks. A few plants are tucked in around the skull and boulders. The background is nearly black except for a diffuse pale green halo framing the young man’s head.
Bernardo Strozzi, Saint Francis in Prayer, c. 1620/1630, oil on canvas, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, 2002.78.1

Saint Francis in Prayer

Bernardo Strozzi · c. 1620/1630 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2002.78.1

Bernardo Strozzi, A Hand Holding Empty Gloves, 1630s, red chalk on beige oatmeal paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1992.26.1

A Hand Holding Empty Gloves

Bernardo Strozzi · 1630s · red chalk on beige oatmeal paper ·  Accession ID  1992.26.1

Bernardo Strozzi, Ecclesia Surrounded by Angels Holding the Instruments of the Passion, pen and brown ink over black chalk heightened with white on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.150.69

Ecclesia Surrounded by Angels Holding the Instruments of the Passion

Bernardo Strozzi · · pen and brown ink over black chalk heightened with white on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.150.69

Bernardo Strozzi, Saint Ursula, red chalk on beige oatmeal paper, William B. O'Neal Fund, 1998.28.2

Saint Ursula

Bernardo Strozzi · · red chalk on beige oatmeal paper ·  Accession ID  1998.28.2

Bibliography

1674

  • Soprani, Raffaele. Le vite de' pittori, scoltori, et architetti genovesi, che in Genova operarono con alcuni ritratti de gli stessi. Genova, 1674: 155-161.

1966

  • Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Rome, 1966.

1981

  • Alfonso, Luigi. "Liguri Illustri: Bernardo Strozzi." La Berio 3 (September-December 1981): 12-37.

1983

  • Carpaneto da Langasco, Cassiano. Bernardo Castello. Postille in margine al IV centenario della nascita. Genoa, 1983.

1986

  • Pesenti, Franco Renzo. La pittura in Liguria: artisti del primo seicento. Genoa, 1986.

1992

  • Galassi, Maria Clelia. In Genova nell'Età barocca. Edited by Ezia Gavazza and Giovanni Rotondi Terminiello. Exh. cat. Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola and Galleria di Palazzo Reale, Genova. Bologna, 1992: 258-269.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 248-249.