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About the Artwork
This figure’s individualized facial expression, dynamic turn of the head and animated drapery are all characteristic of 17th-century Roman portrait sculpture. Guidi, a pupil of Alessandro Algardi, juxtaposed broad swaths of drapery and deeply drilled and carved hair with delicate surface detail, visible here in the patterning of the jacket and the faint suggestion of a beard. Based on a comparison with a later portrait on the family tomb in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, the sitter has been identified as Fabrizio Naro (d. 1697), marquis of Mompei.
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Domenico Guidi (Italian, 1625–1701)
- Date
- c. 1680
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- Overall: 81.5 x 70.4 x 50.1 cm (32 1/16 x 27 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.); Base: 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1979.39
Provenance
1979: Heim Gallery (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010774
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