File:Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani - Walters 371915.jpg

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Lavinia Fontana: Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani  wikidata:Q18749490 reasonator:Q18749490
Artist
Lavinia Fontana  (1552–1614)  wikidata:Q236050 q:fr:Lavinia Fontana
 
Lavinia Fontana
Description painter, draftswoman and artist
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 11 August 1614 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bologna Edit this at Wikidata Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1575 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Bologna (1579–1601); Rome (1600–1614) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q236050
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Title
Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Ginevra Aldrovandi's husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly brocade, lace, and pearls-indicates her high social status. She holds a handkerchief, suggesting the tears she shed at her husband's death. The lapdog is her pet, but it also carries symbolic significance. During the 16th century, a widow who did not re-marry, staying faithful to her husband's memory, was often compared to a dog that was faithful to its master.
Date circa 1595
date QS:P571,+1595-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Renaissance
era QS:P2348,Q4692
)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 114.9 cm (45.2 in); width: 94.9 cm (37.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,114.94U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,94.93U174728
; Painted surface height: 115 cm (45.2 in); width: 95 cm (37.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,115U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,95U174728
; with frame: height: 137.8 cm (54.2 in); width: 117.7 cm (46.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,137.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,117.79U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1915
Place of creation Bologna
Object history
  • Hercolani Collection, Bologna [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1881[mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 194; 1897 catalogue: no. 180]
  • 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Old Mistresses: Women Artists of the Past. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1972. Lavinia Fontana, 1552-1614. Museo Civico Archaeologico di Bologna, Bologna. 1994. Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: Commerce, Court and Convent. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. 2007.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 260 , pp. 84−385 OCLC: 2463997.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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