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PORTRAIT OF ITALIAN CARDINAL- FREE WORLDWIDE #1468404

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PORTRAIT OF ITALIAN CARDINAL- FREE WORLDWIDE #1468404
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DESCRIPTION: OFFICIAL PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN CARDINAL.
In this highly finished example, the artist used a combination of red, black, and white colours. The red ones shows off the brilliant color of the cardinal's cape and hat, while the white creates soft highlights in his hair and collar. Black lines behind the cardinal give the figure added weight and depth. Finally, layers of brilliant colours on top of the painting give the surface of the painting added richness and texture. The portrait seems to comunicate a kind of malicious spirit and taste for beautiful things and fine living. In the painting he wears the white liturgical under-vestment known as an alb, a biretta, and a red hat to which subdued highlights lend a sheen suggesting the texture of fabric. The cardinal is painted into the fore with an hard look to the spectator. Mention has often been made of the chromatic unity of this portrait, in which the red flesh tones, the red cape, the red hat, where red velvet against the backdrop of a red door create such a dramatic effect .This marvelously orchestrated profusion of crimson tints - sometimes, as in the cape, with cold reflections as if "lit by neon" - undoubtedly derives from the example of Titian, while the representation of the contrasting white gown certainly harks back to Veronese, the only sixteenth-century Venetian painter who knew how to handle this difficult "non-colour." A man of power, depicted in magenta, an aggressive and vital colour, that together ...
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<tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:circa second half of XVII century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:ITALY</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:UNSIGNED</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:32.6 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:2.7</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:26.7</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:PORTRAIT OF ITALIAN CARDINAL- FREE WORLDWIDE</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:REALISM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:oil on canvas</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Pompei Italy</td></tr>
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