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Find the arrow he holds, the weapon that killed him, then look past the red curtain to the stretch of sea at right.
On October 7, 1571, Agostino Barbarigo was second in command of the Venetian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, fought against the Ottoman Empire, and an arrow killed him there. The arrow in his hand tells us that Veronese painted the portrait after his death. As in other Venetian military portraits of the 1500s, he wears armor and takes the pose of a Roman emperor, which tied him to the soldiers of ancient Rome.
oil on canvas · Framed: 136.2 x 136.2 x 12.1 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo
- Artist
- Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588)
- Date
- after c. 1571
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 136.2 x 136.2 x 12.1 cm (53 5/8 x 53 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 102.2 x 104.2 cm (40 1/4 x 41 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. L. E. Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Guerdon S. Holden, and the L. E. Holden Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1528–1588
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.