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Maker(s):Bedoli, Girolamo Mazzola
Culture:Italian (c.1500-c.1569)
Title:Portrait of a Monk
Date Made:ca. 1550
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Measurements:Stretcher: 21 7/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 55.5625 cm x 41.91 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1961.80
Credit Line:Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
A portrait of a monk wearing a gray habit, with head and shoulders in three-quarters view and eyes toward the viewer. He has a tonsured head and a short brown beard. The background, in a thin layer of paint, is plain.

Label Text:
This figure is believed to have been used by the artist as a model for the figure of St. Francis in the altarpiece of the Nativity in the Gallery of Naples, in the Holy Conversation in the Museum of Budapest, and in the Madonna with St. Sebastian and Francis in the Dresden Gallery.

Subjects:
Canvas

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