Bartolommeo Passarotti probably painted this portrait between 1570 and 1575. There is an almost identical portrait in a Viennese museum. In the Ghent canvas however the note found on the corner of the table in the Viennese version is missing. The dedication on this note reveals the man’s identity: ‘to the illustrious physician master Carlo Fontana of Bologna, who is like a brother to me’. The rhetorical gestures in this and many other of Passarotti’s paintings is so characteristic of his art that they have almost become the artist’s individual signature. Passarotti also painted religious works, but mainly built a reputation founded on his renown as a portrait painter.
Artist |
Bartolomeo Passerotti
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Title | Portrait of the Physician Carlo Fontana |
Date | ca. 1570 - ca. 1575 |
Period | 16th century |
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | apocryphal signature in the upper right-hand corner of the enlargement strip: Ludovico C. |
Collection | paintings AAT |
Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
Inventory number | 1914-CH |
Acquisition credit |
bequest
Scribe, Fernand Ghent 1913 |
Current whereabouts | Work on display |
Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-CH |
IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/645/manifest.json |
Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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portraits
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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Keywords Iconclass |
11R71
skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'
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31A211 (human) skull 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 31A25551 index finger upwards Iconclass 31A534 beard Iconclass 31A5341 moustache Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass 41A7212 armchair, seat Iconclass 41C37 table-cloth Iconclass 41D221(HAT) head-gear: hat Iconclass 41D2664 ring Iconclass 49MM32 book - MM - book open Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(CARLO FONTANA) historical person (CARLO FONTANA) Iconclass |
School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
Nota su Bartolomeo Passarotti / W. Arslan. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 18-20) |
Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 33 ('Carracci')) |
Bartolomeo Passerotti, pittore (1529-1592) : Catalogo generale = Bartolomeo Passerotti, Painter (1529-1992) : General Catalogue / Angela Ghirardi. - Rimini : Luisè Editore, 1990 (p. 183-184, nr. 27) |
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. 29) |
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 134-135 (ill.)) |
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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