Bernardo Strozzi (BM 1860,0728.263)

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Bernardo Strozzi (BM 1860,0728.263)

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Interior of a monastery, where Strozzi, a young monk with a tonsure, holds a palette and brushes and stands in front of a painting on an easel and a wooden table with cloths and utensils, and looks at his model, an elderly monk seated in a chair to left attended by two monks holding a cloth and a tray with vessels and a third reading a book; in the far left an armchair with a textile over it and a book on the arm rest and a panel lettered "Fra. Bernardo / Strozzi. / 1601" leaning against one side, a stained glass window in the main wall, the floor tiled, wooden beams in the ceiling; other monks present including two watching the painter, and another in a doorway to right, above which a portrait; after Granet
Lithograph on buff chine collé

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Date

1900
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Source

British Museum
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public domain

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