File:Pontormo - Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici with Giulia de' Medici - Walters 37596.jpg
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Pontormo: Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici with Giulia de' Medici
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Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici with Giulia de' Medici |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Pontormo (called by the name of his birthplace) was esteemed by the Medicis for his ability to capture the individuality of his sitters, while emphasizing their aristocratic demeanor. Maria Salviati was the wife of famous military leader Giovanni delle Bande Nere de' Medici (d. 1526) and the mother of Cosimo I (1519-1574), grand duke of Tuscany. The little girl holding her hand here is probably Giulia, a Medici relative who was left in Maria's care after the murder of the child's father, Duke Alessandro de' Medici (1511-1537). As Alessandro was born of a liaison between a Medici cardinal and a servant who, tradition has it, was African, this formal portrait may be the first of a girl of African ancestry in European art. The child was painted over sometime during the 19th century but was rediscovered during a 1937 cleaning of the work.
Although Maria still wears the clothing of mourning for her deceased husband, Pontormo's elegant style conveys her aristocratic grace through her impossibly long fingers and her fashionably pale color (indicative of a life led out of the sun), which she shares with Giulia. This painting will be featured in the Walters' upcoming exhibition Face to Face, the African Presence in Renaissance Europe (opening October 2012). |
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| Date | circa 1537 (Renaissance) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painted surface: Height: 88 cm (34.6 ″); Width: 71.3 cm (28 ″); Depth: 1 cm (0.3 ″) Framed Height: 113 cm (44.5 ″); Width: 92 cm (36.2 ″); Depth: 8.8 cm (3.5 ″) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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37.596 |
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| Place of creation | Florence, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | Undercover Stories in Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980. Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001. Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de'Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 2001-2002. The Legacy of Michelangelo. Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. 2002-2003. Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. 2004-2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Federico Zeri () (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 211, pp. 325-328 OCLC: 2463997. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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