Equestrian portrait of Pietro Strozzi, Florentine painter 17th-18th century

Florentine painter, 17th-18th century

Equestrian portrait of Pietro Strozzi (Florence, 1511 – Thionville, 1558)

Oil painting on canvas
cm. 79 x 115 – In frame cm. 92 x 127

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A brave knight, proud in his sumptuous armor outlined with golden ornaments, intent on controlling his rearing horse is placed in the center of our painting. In the background a landscape of the Tuscan Apennines, with the army troops who are preparing to sustain a battle.

It would be the leader Pietro Strozzi (Florence, 1511 – Thionville, 1558) immortalised here during one of the phases of the war of Siena (battle of Marciano): when, in July 1554 the Medici army together with the imperial allies, after having besieged Marciano in French hands, was attacked by the army of Florentine exiles commanded by Piero Strozzi.

The same event was often reprised in sixteenth-century painting, for example by Giovanni Stradano (Bruges, 1523-1605) or by his pupil Antonio Tempesta (Florence 1555 – Rome 1630), a leading artist in the seventeenth-century development of the 'battle' pictorial genre; the canvas, as a whole, takes up the style and compositional choices of their production, both leading exponents in the culture of late Mannerism of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, emulated by many authors of the period.

The equestrian portrait of the leader highlights his armour, in its magnificence and richness, which recalls that which was widespread in Tuscan courts during the 16th century, drawing inspiration from ancient art, from paintings of the period and above all from the widely distributed engravings of the disciples of Raphael and Giulio Romano.

The detail of the mask imprinted on the shield is very beautiful, one of the imaginative decorations typical of the restless period of Mannerism.

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The work is completed by a pleasant gilded wooden frame and is sold accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and descriptive iconographic card.

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