File:Piero Pollaiuolo Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza.jpg
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Summary
Piero del Pollaiuolo: Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza
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| Title |
Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
Piero Pollaiuolo (1441-1496) painted this portrait during one of Galeazzo Maria Sforza's visits to Florence. The work is based on a similar portrait by his brother, Antonio. That the portrait is of Sforza is beyond doubt, as copies exist bearing Sforza's name. Restored in 1994. |
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| Depicted people | Galeazzo Maria Sforza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1471 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | tempera on panel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 65 cm (25.5 in); width: 42 cm (16.5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
2nd floor room 09 |
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| Accession number |
Inv. 1890: 1492 |
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| Object history | 1471-1492: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, 1471 (data ingress), 1492; before 1553: Palazzo Vecchio; 1880: Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Guardaroba, Firenze; -1940 Uffizi; 1940-1943 Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Rifugi bellici, Poggio a Caiano; 1943 Villa Bossi Pucci, Firenze, Montagnana Val di Pesa; Castel Giovo, Bolzano, San Leonardo; 1945: Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Firenze: 1948 Uffizi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history |
Renaissance Faces (1) / The Renaissance portrait from Donatello to Bellini (2),
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| References |
Polo Museale Fiorentino, Inventario 1890: online database: entry 1492 (Italian) Metropolitan Museum |
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| Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art:  Image  Info about artwork |
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Licensing
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
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| current | 21:10, 17 June 2020 | | 951 × 1,454 (591 KB) | wikimediacommons>Aza24 | Minor crop of parts not in the actual painting |
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