Equestrian Portrait Of Pietro Strozzi, Florentine Painter 17th-18th Century

Florentine painter, 17th-18th century
Equestrian portrait of Pietro Strozzi (Florence, 1511 - Thionville, 1558)

Oil on canvas
79 x 115 cm. - Framed cm. 92 x 127

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A valiant knight, proud in his sumptuous armour profiled with gilt ornaments, intent on steering his rearing horse is placed in the centre of our painting. In the background is a landscape of the Tuscan Apennines, with the troops of the army about to engage in battle.

This would be the condottiere Pietro Strozzi (Florence, 1511 - Thionville, 1558) immortalised here during one of the phases of the Sienese war (Battle of Marciano): when, in July 1554, the Medici army together with its imperial allies, after having besieged Marciano in the hands of the French, was attacked by the army of Florentine outlaws commanded by Piero Strozzi.

The same event was often taken up in 16th-century painting, for example by Giovanni Stradano (Bruges, 1523 - 1605) or by his pupil Antonio Tempesta (Florence 1555 - Rome 1630), a leading artist in the 17th-century development of the pictorial genre of the ‘battle’; the canvas, as a whole, echoes the style and compositional choices of their production, both leading exponents of late 16th-century and early 17th-century Mannerism, emulated by many authors of the period.

From the equestrian portrait of the condottiere, the armour stands out in its magnificence and richness, recalling those in vogue in the Tuscan courts during the 16th century, drawing inspiration from ancient art, paintings of the time and especially the widely disseminated engravings by the disciples of Raphael and Giulio Romano.

The detail of the mask impressed on the shield, one of the fanciful decorations typical of the restless period of Mannerism, is very beautiful.

Pietro Strozzi and the Battle of Marciano
Giovanni Stradano (Bruges, 1523 - 1605)


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