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Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro, 1561

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 102 x 81.2 cm
  • Inv. 1914-CL

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The Portrait of humanist Giovanni Paolo Cornaro, at the age of thirty-two, dates from 1561 and is a perfect example of a status portrait. Stylistically speaking this work belongs to the official style of Venetian portrait painting, whereby the figures are always represented against a dark background. The work was painted by Venetian artist Jacopo Robusti, also known as Il Tintoretto. The portrait was painted during the artist’s heyday. The person portrayed here was a connoisseur of antique culture and a member of the prominent Venetian Cornaro family. Several of its members were renowned humanists and artists. Tintoretto portrayed Cornaro in a half-figure portrait, with his left hand on the head of a sculpture of a woman, a broad reference to the character’s cultural background.

Artist

Tintoretto RKD
Venice 1518 - 1519 - Venice 1594
painters (artists)AAT

Title Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro
Date 1561
Period 16th century
Location Venice TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings inscription and year at the right on the plinth of the two columns: IO PAVLVS CORNELIVS / HERMOLAI . A . Æ . SVÆ / XXXII . A . CHR . MDLXI .
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1914-CL
Acquisition credit bequest
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1913
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/147/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015637 portraits AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A25 postures and gestures of arms and hands Iconclass
31A255 postures and gestures of hand and fingers Iconclass
31A2551 postures and gestures of the hand Iconclass
31A534 beard Iconclass
31A5341 moustache Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
41D222(COLLAR) neck-gear: collar Iconclass
41D2664 ring Iconclass
48C145 architectural settings in paintings, sculptures, etc. Iconclass
48C16 architectural detail Iconclass
48C161 column, pillar ~ architecture Iconclass
48C24 piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture Iconclass
49L8 inscription Iconclass
61B2 historical persons Iconclass
61B2(GIOVANNI PAOLO CORNARO) historical person (GIOVANNI PAOLO CORNARO) Iconclass
School / Style Baroque AAT
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Uber einige Bildnisse von Tintoretto / D.F. Von Hadeln. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (jg. 41, p. 36-37)
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De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 28-29 (ill.))
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 273 (ill. 21))
Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 24 (ill.))
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Tintoretto (Mostra Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale, 25.02.2012 - 10.06.2012) / Vittorio Sgarbi, Melania G. Mazzucco, Alessandro Zuccari. - Milano : Skira, 2012
Serial - Portable Classic : The Greek Canon and its Mutations ; Serial Classic : Multiplying Art in Greece and Rome (exhibition in Milan, Fondazione Prada, 09.05 - 24.08.2015 ; Portable Classic : Ancient Greece to Modern Europe (exhibition in Venice, Fondazione Prada, 09-05 - 13.09.2015) / Salvatore Settis, Anna Anguissola, Davide Gasparotto, Maurizio Ferraris, Lothar Ledderose, Rem Koolhaas. - Milan : Fondazione Prada, 2015 (p. 242 [p. 50])
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Tintoretto, 1519-1594 (exhibition Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici-Palazzo Ducale, 07.09.2018 - 06.01.2019 ; 'Tintoretto : Artist of Renaissance Venice', Washington, National Gallery of Art, 10.03 - 07.07.2019) / Robert Echols, Frederick Ilchman, Stefania Mason, Roland Krischel, Susannah Rutherglen. - Venice : Marsilio, 2018 (p. 47 (ill. 36))
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onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 58, cat. 68 (ill.))
Rare and Indispensable : Masterpieces from Flemish Collections (exhibition Antwerp, MAS, 31.10.2023-25.02.2024) / Thomas Leysen, Ben Van Beneden, Abigail D. Newman, Annemie de Vos, Adriaan Gonnissen. - Antwerp : MAS, 2023 ; Kontich : BAI, 2023 (p.146-147)
Zeldzaam en onmisbaar : Topstukken uit Vlaamse collecties (tentoonstelling Antwerpen, MAS, 31.10.2023-25.02.2024) / Thomas Leysen, Ben Van Beneden, Abigail D. Newman, Annemie de Vos, Adriaan Gonnissen. - Antwerpen : MAS, 2023 ; Kontich : BAI, 2023
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