Bernardo Strozzi
Two Seated Figures
About this artwork
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artist:Bernardo Strozzi (1581 - 1644) Italian
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title:Two Seated Figures
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Reed pen, brown ink on blue paper, laid down
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measurements:27.00 x 20.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1659 B
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Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi
Despite being born to impoverished parents, Strozzi became one of the most accomplished and celebrated Genoese artists of his generation. His rise to fame was by no means smooth. Following some initial artistic training under the painter Pietro Sorri, by 1599 Strozzi had decided to become a...