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A man with a distinctive beard and moustache sits in a chair looking out. He wears a black ecclesiastical robe and holds a geometric compass in his left hand. On the table to the left is an armillary sphere and a sheet of paper with a horoscope, on which rests a book inscribed along the edge of its pages: Efemer (the last letter is not certain). The inscription on the book allows the sitter to be identified as Carlo Bartolomeo Piazza (1632–1713), an erudite Milanese priest who had a successful career in the Roman Curia (papal court) and who published extensively. His Efemeride Vaticana, an illustrated calendar of saints, was published in Rome in 1687. When this painting was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1908, it was thought to be a portrait of the astronomer Galileo Galilei by the Florentine painter Domenico Cresti, called Passignano (1558–1638).
Title
Portrait of the Abbate Carlo Bartolomeo Piazza
Date
1600-50
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 113.7 x W 83.8 cm
Accession number
NG2294
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by George Fielder, 1908
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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