File:Dutch - Portrait of the Poet Homer - Walters 37646.jpg

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anonymous: Portrait of the Poet Homer  wikidata:Q18749464 reasonator:Q18749464
Artist

Dutch (?)
French (?)
Flemish (?)

Manner of Caravaggio  (1571–1610)  wikidata:Q42207 q:it:Caravaggio
 
Manner of Caravaggio
Alternative names

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
Birth name: Michelangelo Merisi

Italiano: Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death 29 September 1571 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1610 / 1610 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Milan Porto Ercole
Work period 1593 - 1610
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1777,Q42207
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of the Poet Homer
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The old man honored by a laurel wreath is Homer, the greatest poet of antiquity, identified by the inscription on the sheet of paper with the names of the cities that claimed Homer as a native. This imaginary portrait (no one knows what he looked like) is not so much a celebration of the author of the early Greek epic poems- The Iliad and The Odyssey- but of the fame that a poet could achieve. This splendid painting is dated but not signed. The forceful modeling suggests a Flemish painter influenced by Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610).
Depicted people Homer Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1639 (Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
)
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 72.1 cm (28.3 in); width: 56.8 cm (22.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,72.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,56.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.646
Place of creation Netherlands (?)
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Inscriptions Dated lower left.
References Walters Art Museum artwork ID: 35475 Edit this at Wikidata
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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