Portrait of Girolamo Mercuriale
1588-1589 (Renaissance)
Overall (painted surface including added strip at right): H: 46 7/8 × W: 35 in. (119 × 88.9 cm); Framed: H: 56 1/2 × W: 44 1/2 × D: 3 1/2 in. (143.5 × 113 × 8.9 cm)
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The Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) reads an edition of the pioneering work on human anatomy "On the Fabric of the Human Body," published first in Latin in 1543 by the great Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius. Mercuriale points to one thought-prov...
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Marquess Filippo Marignoli, Rome and Spoleto, until 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Marquess Francesco Marignoli, 1898 [mode of acqusition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, 1899 [1900 catalogue supplement: no. 37, as School of Moroni]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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