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Baron Michele Lazzaroni

Italian

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A person wearing a black hood and cloak over a white long-sleeved garment stands in a wooden box, a pulpit, and speaks to a crowd gathered below in this vertical painting. The people all have pale skin tinged with green and pink cheeks. The preacher stands along the right side of the painting, his mouth open and both hands held up. He faces our left almost in profile, and his forehead, eyes, and mouth are deeply lined. Seventeen men and women sit or stand across the front of the crowd or at the far side of it. They wear garments in rose pink, fog gray, sapphire blue, vivid red, or black. Five of them sit along a wooden rail or bench closest to us with their backs facing out. Between this and the standing people on the far side of the crowd are dozens of heads, mostly covered with white cloths though a few have blond hair. Buildings in gray, pale pink, or white stone fill the background except for a few patches of sky, which are shiny gold. The torso of a person holding an open book floats high above the crowd, cut off by the top edge of the painting. The person wears a dark blue robe over a pink garment and is surrounded by a ring made of the red wings of winged, blond baby heads with gold halos. Gold rays radiate out from the ring.
Agnolo degli Erri, A Dominican Preaching, c. 1470, tempera on poplar panel, Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg, 1941.5.2

A Dominican Preaching

Agnolo degli Erri · c. 1470 · tempera on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1941.5.2

French 18th Century, Young Woman with a Muff, c. 1750, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.5

Young Woman with a Muff

French 18th Century · c. 1750 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.7.5

Shown from the hips up, a nude woman stands between a table in front of her and a clothed man behind her, against a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other. The woman’s pale skin has a pronounced golden glow. Her body faces us and she looks to our left, holding her waist-length, curly, strawberry-blond hair with her right hand by her face. Her hair on the other side is tied back with a sage-green band behind her ear. She wears a sheer white sash wrapped around her back and upper arms. A muted rose-pink, velvet sash loops over her left forearm, to our left. That hand rests on a round, squat glass bottle that sits on a leaf-green table, with her index finger covering the opening of the bottle. She wears a gold ring with a small dark stone on her left ring finger, and another gold ring rests on the table. The back corner of the table covers her genitals in the lower right corner of the painting. Behind her and to our left, a man with an olive-toned complexion and short curly brown hair, moustache, and long beard looks down his long nose at the woman as he rests his left hand, to our right, on her shoulder. He has dark eyebrows, flushed cheeks, and his pink lips are closed. He wears a cranberry-red coat embroidered along the edges with gold. White ruffles encircle his neck and the cuff we can see. Almost lost in shadow, the hilt of his sword peeks around his hip. With his right hand, to our left, he holds up a dark rectangular object in a wood-colored frame. The reflections of his fingertips in the glass indicate that this is a mirror, but the surface is otherwise black. A dense, forest-green tree grows in the landscape behind the woman. The view over the man’s shoulder, to our left, has sea-green hills beneath a watery blue sky with cream-white clouds.
Italian 15th/16th Century, Allegory of Love, c. 1520/1540, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.259

Allegory of Love

Italian 15th/16th Century · c. 1520/1540 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.259

Bibliography

1971

  • Vertova, L. "Five Centuries of Painting at Algranti, Milan [exhibition review]." Burlington Magazine 113 (July 1971): 427.

1976

  • Fowles, Edward. Memories of Duveen Brothers (1976), 122.