http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=535.1999&output=atom <![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> 2024-03-29T01:11:15-05:00 Omeka http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2841 <![CDATA[Portrait of a Man]]> Known for his portraits, genre scenes, and religious works, Bernardo Strozzi was one of the most influential painters active in Genoa and Venice in the seventeenth century. Strozzi captured popular fashions in his portraiture. The sitter in the Portrait of a Man wears a doublet with buttons and a flat, white collar, which generally replaced the voluminous ruff. His long, wavy brown hair reflects a hairstyle in vogue at the time. From 1550 to 1650, beard fashions varied enough to include over fifty named styles. This sitter’s beard appears to be a variation on the “Roman T” or “hammer cut” beard, which included a straight moustache, a thin tuft of hair below the lower lip—the “handle” of the hammer—and perhaps a goatee. Beards were seen as symbols of masculinity as well as adulthood.
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Creator

Bernardo Strozzi

Title

Portrait of a Man

Date Created

circa 1625

Spatial Coverage

60.2 cm x 48.8 cm (23 11/16 in. x 19 3/16 in.)

Identifier

535.1999

Medium

Oil on canvas

Description

Known for his portraits, genre scenes, and religious works, Bernardo Strozzi was one of the most influential painters active in Genoa and Venice in the seventeenth century. Strozzi captured popular fashions in his portraiture. The sitter in the Portrait of a Man wears a doublet with buttons and a flat, white collar, which generally replaced the voluminous ruff. His long, wavy brown hair reflects a hairstyle in vogue at the time. From 1550 to 1650, beard fashions varied enough to include over fifty named styles. This sitter’s beard appears to be a variation on the “Roman T” or “hammer cut” beard, which included a straight moustache, a thin tuft of hair below the lower lip—the “handle” of the hammer—and perhaps a goatee. Beards were seen as symbols of masculinity as well as adulthood.

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Genoa, Italy, 1581 - 1644, Venice, Italy

Type

painting

Has Version

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/object_images/ART New/535.1999.zif

Requires

16373
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