St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád
Bernardo Strozzi
1633
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130.3 × 100 cm (51 1/4 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 158.8 × 130.8 × 10.2 cm (62 1/2 × 51 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- oil on canvas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
religionoil paintings (visual works)paintingpaintcanvasoil on canvasportraitoil paint (paint)painting (image making)17th Centurypainting techniquesSaintsChristian subjectsmanportraitsoil paintingeuropean paintingChristianityvestments
About
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.
