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Portrait of the Physician Carlo Fontana, ca. 1570 - ca. 1575

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 95.8 x 76.6 cm
  • Inv. 1914-CH

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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 RKD
Bologna 1528 - 1529 - Bologna 1592
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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
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/645/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015637 portraits AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
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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
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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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