Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of an Old Man
Giulio CampiLinkedCulture matchlcp-e4ed76e41257
- Date
- mid-1500s
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 97156
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Part of a distinguished family of Northern northern Italian painters, Campi depicts his sitter with an unidealized face dominated by carefully observed wrinkles. He stares out intently while grasping what may be a letter with its paper seal broken in his right hand. Despite this intense gaze the figure does not establish a lively connection with the viewer, and his mood remains distant and reserved, in keeping with Renaissance ideas about elegant comportment. Though his costume appears plain, the sumptuous black fabric was indicative of high status in some parts of Europe. --Michele Frederick (December 2011)
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- Credit line
- Holden Collection
- Provenance
- Gino Capponi Gallery (Florence, Italy) | James Jackson Jarves | Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1883, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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