Portrait of Fabrizio Naro

Description

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.

Provenance

Heim Gallery (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.

Portrait of Fabrizio Naro

Domenico Guidi

c. 1680

Accession Number

1979.39

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.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection