Portrait of Ottaviano Grimani
1541, Artist: Bernardino Licinio
Portrait of Ottaviano Grimani
The nobleman Ottaviano Grimani commissioned this threequarter-length portrait to commemorate the founding of the Compagnia della Calza dei Sempiterni (1541). Sumptuously dressed in the colours of his Compagnia, he has placed his right hand on a book that may be the statutes of the Sempiterni (Always-eternals). Compagnie were associations of young noblemen charged with organizing lavish festivities. Reflecting his Lombard love of verisimilitude, Licinio faithfully documents the sitter’s features and clothes, and includes the sitter’s name and age, the artist’s signature and the date the painting was produced. Inv.-Nr. GG 1567
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Dated
1541
Artist
Bernardino Licinio (um 1485/89 - um 1550 Venedig) - GND
Material
Canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 115,2 cm × 96 cm × 2,5 cm
Framed: 135 cm × 116,5 cm × 6,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed at lower left: B. Lycinii. OPVS; upper right: ANNOR. XXIIII MDXLI
Inscribed
Links oben die Inschrift:OTAVIANUS/GRIMANUS/SEMPITERNA/SOCIETATE/PRIOR
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 1567
Provenance
1804 in the gallery
Depiction/Person
Ottaviano Grimani (16. Jahrhundert) - GND
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