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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni wears a scarlet, watered-silk mozetta, or short cape, over his lace-fringed rochet which has a deep flounce of Venetian needlepoint. Francesco Trevisani subtly captured the difference in the textures and hues of the fabrics. His style exemplifies the transition between the grandiosity of seventeenth-century Baroque portraiture and the more restrained elegance of this genre in the eighteenth century. Ottoboni was an important protector of the arts in eighteenth-century Rome and he was Trevisani's main patron after the death of Cardinal Flavio Chigi in 1693. The arms of the Ottoboni family appear on the chair-back behind the Cardinal. | Subjects: | Pietro) portrait (Ottoboni | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Trevisani, Francesco (Italian painter, 1656-1746) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8979... | Go to resource |
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