Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
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The Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro is a picture by the Italian
Renaissance
artist Raphael
, dating from around 1506 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
.
, brought to Florence
in 1635 as Vittoria della Rovere
's dowry. In is mentioned with certainty for the first time in 1623 in an inventory of the Ducal Palace of Pesaro
.
It was attributed to Raphael for the first time in 1905. Other artists to whom the portrait has been assigned include Francesco Francia and Cesare Tamaroccio.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
artist Raphael
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
, dating from around 1506 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
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History
The painting was likely part of the Ducal collection of UrbinoUrbino
Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482...
, brought to Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
in 1635 as Vittoria della Rovere
Vittoria della Rovere
Vittoria della Rovere was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy; the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest reigning monarch and Francesco Maria, a prince of the Church...
's dowry. In is mentioned with certainty for the first time in 1623 in an inventory of the Ducal Palace of Pesaro
Pesaro
Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....
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It was attributed to Raphael for the first time in 1905. Other artists to whom the portrait has been assigned include Francesco Francia and Cesare Tamaroccio.
See also
- Portrait of Elisabetta GonzagaPortrait of Elisabetta GonzagaThe Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga is a picture from around 1504, attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.-History:...
- Portrait of Emilia Pia da MontefeltroPortrait of Emilia Pia da MontefeltroThe Portrait of Emilia Pia da Montefeltre is a painted portrait from around 1502-1504, attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and housed by the Baltimore Museum of Art, United States-History:...
- Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son GuidobaldoPortrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son GuidobaldoThe Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and His Son Guidobaldo is a painting by Spanish Renaissance artist Pedro Berruguete, dating from c. 1475 and housed in the Galleria nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, Italy....