Portrait of Fabrizio Naro (c. 1680): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Fabrizio Naro (c. 1680) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Domenico Guidi (Italian, 1625–1701).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Fabrizio Naro
• Date: c. 1680
• Creator attribution: Domenico Guidi (Italian, 1625–1701)
• Culture: Italy, Rome
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1979.39

Collection credit

The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LXVII, no. 3 (March, 1980): 58–99.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• Spike, John T. Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections : The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, December 7, 1984–February 3, 1985, Wadsworth Atheneum, March 20–May 20, 1985. Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1984.

View the collection record

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