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Portrait of Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine
El Greco1572
Kunsthaus Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland
The old reinforcments (22 cm at the top, 11.5 cm at the sides and bottom) were removed or covered in 2000.
Charles de Guise (1525-1574), Archbishop of Reims, was one of the leaders of the Spanish Catholic Party at the court of the last Valois. The parrot, Italian 'papagallo' points as a pun (Papa gallo = Gallic pope) to the ambitions of the cardinal.
A contemporary reproduction engraving (parrot replaced by cross) and several old copies are known.
The attribution to El Greco is based on stylistic considerations and is agreed upon by most scholars.
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Details
- Title: Portrait of Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine
- Creator: El Greco
- Creator Lifespan: 1541 – 1614
- Creator Death Place: Toledo, Spain
- Creator Birth Place: Candia (Crete), Greece
- Date Created: 1572
- Physical Dimensions: 178,5 x 94,5 cm
- Type: painting
- External Link: Kunsthaus Zürich, Online Collection
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Art Movement: Mannerism
- Original title: Bildnis des Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine
- Inventory number: KS 47
- Credit line: Kunsthaus Zürich, The Betty and David Koetser Foundation, 1986
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