Currently housed at the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola.
The "Allegory of Painting", kept for several years in the Zerbone collection in Genoa, re-emerged from the antiquarian market only in 1973, but from that moment it has become an integral part of the catalog of Bernardo Strozzi, one of the major artists of the early Italian seventeenth century. Strozzi completed his first training in the workshop of the Sienese painter Pietro Sorri at the end of the sixteenth century and began his activity in Genoa. After being accepted into the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in 1598, between 1609 and 1610 he asked his superiors for permission to fully exercise his profession, to contribute to the support of his mother and sister. In his early works Bernardo looked at the late mannerism models proposed by his Tuscan master, but also by Lombard artists such as Cerano, Procaccini and Morazzone. In Genoa he can also deepen his study on masterpieces by Caravaggio and his followers, and by the authors of the Flemish school present in the best collections of the Superba, considerably enriching his figurative lexicon. During the twenties he finds in Pieter Paul Rubens that richness of chromatic mixtures, which will become a mark".
- Giamblanco Gallery Catalog, Italian Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Allemandi, Turin, 2014.
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