About this artwork
The young woman wears a laurel wreath, the traditional attribute of Poetry. She is almost identical to the figure representing Poetry in Furini’s huge fresco of the Platonic Academy in the Sala degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, painted between 1639 and 1642.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Francesco Furini (1603 - 1646) Italian
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title:Personification of Poetry
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date created:About 1633
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materials:Oil on paper laid on panel
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measurements:41.40 x 34.50 cm; Framed: 79.70 x 72.00 x 13.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased by the RI 1831; transferred 1859
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accession number:NG 31
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Francesco Furini
Francesco Furini
Furini was one of the most successful Florentine painters of the seventeenth century. He undertook few public commissions, producing mainly small and medium sized gallery pictures for private clients. He is best known for his many works featuring sensuous female nudes, with subjects drawn mainly...
