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Summary
Palma Vecchio : The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q9342
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Title |
The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
The Sacra conversazione is a composition in which the Virgin and Child are surrounded by saints of different historical eras, and on occasions, by donors (as in the present example). The kneeling figure leaning towards the Virgin, who draws the Christ Child’s attention to him, has been tentatively identified as Francesco Priuli. Priuli was one of Palma Vecchio’s patrons in Venice and was Procurator of the Republic in 1522.
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Date |
between circa 1518 and circa 1520
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1518-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1520-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium |
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
transferred to
canvas
medium QS:P186,Q12321255
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Dimensions |
height: 105 cm (41.3 in); width: 136 cm (53.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,105U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,136U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q176251
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Accession number |
309 (1934.36)
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Object history | This painting has been identified as the one mentioned by Francesco Sansovino in his guide to Venice published in 1581, entitled Venezia Città Nobilissima , in the section on the palazzo Priuli. In the 17th century it would appear that Marina Priuli gave the painting to the Venetian Senate, according to information published by Marco Boschini in 1664 in another guidebook on the city’s paintings. In 1656 she wrote her will, mentioning the intended destination of the painting, which was given to the Senate following her death in 1661. The painting was hung over one of the doors in the Hall of the Council of Ten. In 1808 it belonged to Napoleon’s stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, and is recorded in an inventory of that year. The painting passed through various generations of the family (among them the Duke of Leuchtenberg, in his collection at St Petersburg) until it was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/246 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/246 |
Licensing
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