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Allegorical Figure

c. 1636

Bernardo Strozzi

(Italian, 1581?-1644)

Italy, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 178.5 x 133.5 x 12 cm (70 1/4 x 52 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 145.8 x 99.8 cm (57 3/8 x 39 5/16 in.)

Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1929.133

Location

not on view

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The preparatory drawing for this painting is also in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1953.626).

Description

During the 1630s, the Genoese artist Bernardo Strozzi painted a number of female figures representing various intellectual and artistic pursuits, reflecting the appeal of such allegories among learned patrons in northern Italy. Recent scholarship has convincingly identified the subject of this painting as Minerva. The Roman goddess of war has put aside her armor for more contemplative pursuits; her upward gaze—as if seeking inspiration—recalls her other associations with wisdom, eloquence, and the arts.

Provenance

Until 1929

Collection of Italico Brass, Venice, Italy)

1929

Sold from the Italico Brass collection, Venice, with the assistance of Harold Woodbury Parsons to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1929 -

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907. Mentioned: Vol. XXXII, p. 208

Milliken, William M. "Minerva by Bernardo Strozzi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XVI, no.4 (April, 1929): 63-66. Reproduced: p. 61, detail; p. 62

Siple, Ella S. "Art in America, Italian Baroque Painting." The Burlington Magazine LV (1929): 105-106. Mentioned: P. 105; reproduced: Pl. A

"Cleveland Gets Gem By Rococo Master." Art Digest III, no. 14 (April 1929): 15.
Published as Minerva. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15

"Cleveland Acquires Strozzi Minerva." ARTnews (April 6, 1929): 13.
Published as Minerva. Mentioned: P. 13

"La Vie Artistique a l'Etranger." La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne LVI (June 1929): 267-275, Mentioned and reproduced: P. 269-270

The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XVII, no.3 (March, 1930).49-56. Mentioned: p. 55; Reproduced: p. 53

Freund, Frank E. W. "Ausstellungen und Heuerwerbungen der Amerikanischen Museen." Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers und Sammlers XXII, no. 5 (1930): 121-129. Reproduced: P. 138

Hitchcock, Henry Russell, Jr. "The St. Catherine by Bernardo Strozzi." Bulletin of the Wadsworth Atheneum IX (1931): 13-15. Mentioned: P. 15

Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York: E. Wyhe, 1933. Reproduced: Vol. III, pl. 582

"Bibliografia dell'Arte Italiana." L'Arte (Gennaio 1934): 78-98. Mentioned: P. 79

Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: The Art news, 1936. Reproduced: no. 133, pl. XXXVI

Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. Mentioned: no. 166; reproduced: pl. XXXVI

"The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34, no. 37 (June 13, 1936): 6-14. Mentioned: P. 10

Arslan, Edoardo. "Quattro Piccoli Contributi." Critica d'Arte III (1938): 75-79. Mentioned: P. 77, n. 9

Cleveland Museum of Art. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland],1945. Reproduced: P. 53

Francis, Henry S. "A Pieta by Bernardo Strozzi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XL, no. 8 (October, 1953):182-183. Mentioned: p. 182-183

Mortari, Luia. "Su Bernardo Strozzi." Bollettino d'Arte XL (1955): 311-333. Mentioned: P. 328

Francis, Henry S. "A Drawing for Strozzi's Minerva." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIII, no. 6 (June, 1956):123-126. Reproduced: p. 125

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 423 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 114 archive.org

Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1966. Mentioned: p. 61, 99, 173; Reproduced: p. 224, fig. 408

Matteucci Armandi, Anna Maria. Bernardo Strozzi. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966. Reproduced: Pl. VI

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 114 archive.org

Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Mentioned: p. 193, 473, 573

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 136 archive.org

Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Mentioned: p. 45-46; Reproduced: fig. 52

Pallucchini, Rodolfo, and Maria Maddalena Palmegiano. La pittura veneziana del Seicento. Venezia, Italy: Alfieri, 1981. Reproduced: p. 160, vol. I

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 420; Mentioned: p. 421-422

Pesenti, Franco Renzo. La pittura in Liguria: artisti del primo seicento. Genoa, Italy: Cassa di risparmio di Genova e Imperia, 1986. Reproduced: p. 64, fig. 36

Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 229

Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Storia di Venezia--temi. Roma, Italy: Instituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1994. Reproduced p. 160

Spicer, Joaneath, Peter M. Lukehart, and Martha Lucy. Bernardo Strozzi: Master Painter of the Italian Baroque (1581/2-1644). Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Gallery, 1995. Reproduced: no. 25

Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1995. Reproduced: p. 201, no. 532

Strozzi, Bernardo, Ezia Gavazza, Giovanna Nepi Sciré, Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello, and Giuliana Algeri. Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. Milano: Electa, 1995. cat. no. 103, pp. 62, 222-23, 304-05

Cuccia, Antonio. "La Prima Maturita Di Pietro Novelli. Contributi All'attivita Giovanile/ Antonio Cuccia." Bollettino d’arte del Ministero della educazione nazionale 108, Serie VI (Aprile-Giugno 1999): 19-56. Reproduced: P. 51, fig. 49

Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 56, fig. 1

Orlando, Anna, and Stefano Magnasco. Stefano Magnasco: e la cerchia di Valerio Castello. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy: Silvana, 2001. Reproduced: pl. 241

Manzitti, Camillo. Bernardo Strozzi. Torino, Italy: U. Allemandi, 2013. Mentioned: p. 70, 218, 326

Exhibition history

San Francisco, California, California Palace of Legion of Honor, June 24-July 24, 1938: "Venetian Paintings XV through XVIII Century"

Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, March 1940: "Four Centuries of Venetian Painting," catalogue no. 46, plate 46.

CMA, 1980: "Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism," Gallery J, February 19-March 23, 1980, fig. 52,p. 46. (not exhibited)

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).

Bernardo Strozzi, Paintings and Drawings. Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY (organizer) (October 8-November 5, 1967).

Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. Palazzo Ducale (Genova), Genova, Italy (May 6-August 6, 1995); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (September 10-November 26, 1995).

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