COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0000361
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Work Title (display):
Still Life with Birds and Fruit
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
after 1630
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600-1670)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
Italian painter. She may have begun her training in Ascoli Piceno. In a letter written in the 1620s, she identified the otherwise unknown Giacomo Rogni as her teacher. The theory that she studied miniature painting in Florence with Jacopo Ligozzi is no longer accepted, although she must have seen his exquisite nature studies when she was later at the Medici court. In 1625, and again in 1630, she was in Venice, where she painted a miniature Portrait of a Young Man (1625; The Hague, Willem V Mus.) and wrote a small textbook on calligraphy (Rome, Gal. Accad. N. S Luca). By the late 1620s she had two influential patrons in Rome: Cassiano dal Pozzo and Anna Colonna, wife of Taddeo Barberini. She went to Naples in 1630, to work for the Duque de Alcalá, and was still there a year later, when in a letter to dal Pozzo she expressed her desire to 'live and die in Rome'. However, she spent the next five years in Turin at the court of Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy. She left Turin in 1637, probably for Florence; documents indicate that she was there from 1643. She continued to work for members of the Medici court after finally settling in Rome in 1651. There she was a loyal supporter of the Accademia di S Luca, to which she bequeathed her property on condition that a monument to her be placed in the Accademia's church, SS Luca e Martina. It was set up in 1698. Garzoni specialized in the depiction of fruit, vegetables, flowers and occasionally animals, painted with tiny stippled dabs of watercolour on parchment; she also painted portraits and small devotional pictures. She usually selected one type of fruit (grapes, figs) or vegetable (broad beans), showing it close to the picture plane on a slightly uneven surface coloured to suggest earth but with a horizon too close and low for spatial realism (e.g. Broad Beans, c. 1650; see 19767 exh. cat.). The area above is often untinted. The focus is on the principal object, which she rendered accurately and with considerable compositional flair. She also painted a series of sumptuous bouquets of flowers in glass or porcelain vases, works that display her botanical knowledge and artistic sophistication to best advantage. She was widely admired and was patronized by collectors in Italy and Spain. Almost 40 of her paintings have now been traced in Florentine collections, many in the Palazzo Pitti, and many others were recorded in Medici inventories of the 17th and 18th centuries. Her finest work is a splendid synthesis of art and science rivalled by few specialists in this genre. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-26)
Work Style Period:
Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles
work_styleperiod
Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles
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false
Work Style Period:
17th century
work_styleperiod
17th century
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Work Subject:
birds
subject
birds
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Work Subject:
fruit
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fruit
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
still lifes
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still lifes
Work Subject
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
watercolor on parchment
Work Measurements (display):
25.7 cm (H) x 41.6 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Cleveland Museum of Art
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Cleveland, Ohio
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Saskia, Ltd.
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Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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