Allegory of Painting

Nombre del creador

Domenico Corvi

Contexto cultural

Italian; European

Fecha

Creación: 18th century

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

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Descripción de objeto de Curationist

A woman contemplates her image in a mirror. She holds a painter's palette and a brush. A cherub holds the mirror, indicating this is not an image of a real painter, but rather an allegory of art itself. Drawing on Cesare Ripa's illustrated Iconologia, Corvi portrays painting as a “beautiful woman, with full black hair" and a mask.

Descripción de objeto de Walters Art Museum

This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting. Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid, she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that was then the goal of art. A mask attached to her headdress with a golden chain symbolizes the potentially misleading view of reality that art can convey even when appearing to imitate nature.Corvi's buoyant, cheerful forms are close to those of French rococo art of the period.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 426, pp. 536-537.For the latest information about this object, Allegory of Painting, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.

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Allegory of Painting

Creador

Domenico Corvi (Enlace a la biografía), Painter

Domenico Corvi, male

Tipo de obra

Painting & Drawing; oil paintings (visual works)

Contexto cultural

Italian; European

Material

oil on canvas

Dimensiones

Painted surface H: 23 13/16 x W: 28 7/8 in. (60.5 x 73.3 cm)

Técnica

Oil painting; Painting

Idioma

Fecha

Creación: 18th century

Creation: 1764 (Baroque)

Procedencia

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.; Royal Collections, Turin, 1764, by commission; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 526, by A. R. Mengs]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Estilo Período

Neoclassicism; Baroque

Derechos

CC0;

GNU Free Documentation License

Inscripción

Ubicación

Creación: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Southern Europe, Europe

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

Temas

Tema descriptivo: Woman, Cherub, Mirror, Art of painting, People, European people, Reflection, Allegory, Mask, Paintbrush, Palette

Tema

Colaboradores de Curationist

Emily Benoff; Amanda Acosta

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Domenico Corvi, Allegory of Painting, 1764. Walters Art Museum. Corvi followed contemporary scholars’ treatises which stated that the allegory of painting should be a “beautiful woman, with full black hair.” CC0.

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