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Prospero Fontana: English: Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman in a Fur-trimmed Coat   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Prospero Fontana  (1512–1597)  wikidata:Q460751
 
Prospero Fontana
Alternative names
Prospero Fontana Bolognese; Fontana; Prosper Fontana; P. Fontana
Description painter and designer
Date of birth/death 1512 Edit this at Wikidata 1597 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bologna Bologna
Work period from 1528 until 1597
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1528-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1597-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Genoa (1528-1534), Bologna (1548-....), Rome (1550-1553), Fontainebleau (1560), Template:Poli, Lazio (1562), Bologna (1563), Florence (1565-1566), Template:Città di Castello (1566), Parma, Bologna (1573-1577)
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artist QS:P170,Q460751
Title
English: Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman in a Fur-trimmed Coat
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait of a seated old man in a fur-trimmed gown or coat holding a letter.
Date between circa 1575 and circa 1579
date QS:P571,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 113 cm (44.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,113U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,97U174728
Notes " Vera Fortunati attributes considerable importance to this Portrait of an elderly gentleman in the history of portraiture of the early Counterreformation period in Bologna, dating it with all probability to the end of the 1570s"[1]
References V. Fortunati, 'Per la storia del ritratto a Bologna nel Cinquecento: aggiunte a Prospero Fontana e a Bartolomeo Passerotti', in: Arti a confronto. Studi in onore di Anna Maria Matteucci, Bologna 2004, p. 148, fig. 106
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