Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani

ca. 1595 (Renaissance)

94.6 cm 114.6 cm

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Ginevra Aldrovandi's husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly brocade, lace, and pearls-indicates her high social status. She holds a handkerchief, suggesting the tears she shed at her husband's death. The lapdog...

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Hercolani Collection, Bologna [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1881[mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 194; 1897 catalogue: no. 180]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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