St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád

1633

Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581–1664)

A native of Genoa, Bernardo Strozzi was largely a self-trained artist. He formed his style by observing and combining features from other prominent artists: Peter Paul Ruben’s rich textures and the dramatic lighting employed by followers of Caravaggio. In 1630 or 1631 Strozzi settled in Venice, where a member of the Sagredo family likely commissioned this painting. It commemorates their saintly ancestor Gerardo Sagredo, a Benedictine monk who became Bishop of Csanád, a region straddling present-day Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.

Status: On View, Gallery 211
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Bernardo Strozzi
Title: St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1633
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 130.3 × 100 cm (51 1/4 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 158.8 × 130.8 × 10.2 cm (62 1/2 × 51 1/2 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Alexander A. McKay Fund
Reference Number: 1958.328
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Cristiana Mazza, “La committenza artistica del futuro doge Nicoló Sagredo e l’inventario di Agostino Lama,” Arte veneta 51 (1997), pp. 90.

Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, no. 364, as Giovanni Lanfranco, A Bishop.

Possibly commissioned by Niccolò Sagredo (d. 1685), 1633; possibly Sagredo collection until at least 1685 [for dating of inventory, see Mazza p. 89]. Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton, England, by 1857 [lent to 1857 Manchester exhibition]. Mrs. H. Danninger, England. Antonio Morassi, by 1957; sold to Wildenstein, July 1957, New York; sold to Art Institute, 1958.

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