Saint Bruno

ca. 1525 (Renaissance)

59.9 cm 73.8 cm 0.7 cm

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The inscription on the ledge identifies the subject as St. Bruno of Cologne (ca. 1035-1101), the founder of the Carthusian monastic order. He was canonized, or sainted, by Pope Leo X in 1514. Although the artist did not know what St. Bruno actually looked like, he created an i...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 122; 1897 catalogue: no. 278, as St. Bruno by Garofalo]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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