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St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád

Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581–1664)LinkedCulture matchlcp-55f66fca6e63

Date: 1633
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: Italy
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 8104

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A native of Genoa, Bernardo Strozzi was largely a self-trained artist. He formed his style by observing and combining features from other prominent artists: Peter Paul Ruben's rich textures and the dramatic lighting employed by followers of Caravaggio. In 1630 or 1631 Strozzi settled in Venice, where a member of the Sagredo family likely commissioned this painting. It commemorates their saintly ancestor Gerardo Sagredo, a Benedictine monk who became Bishop of Csanád, a region straddling present-day Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.

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Credit line: Alexander A. McKay Fund
Provenance: Possibly commissioned by Niccolò Sagredo (d. 1685), 1633; possibly Sagredo collection until at least 1685 [for dating of inventory, see Mazza p. 89]. Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton, England, by 1857 [lent to 1857 Manchester exhibition]. Mrs. H. Danninger, England. Antonio Morassi, by 1957; sold to Wildenstein, July 1957, New York; sold to Art Institute, 1958.