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[SIGHTING] La veneziana and Berlin
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A sighting that places Nabokov in a Berlin picture gallery, where the painting that inspired "La Veneziana" now hangs.( btw:I haven't checked the present attribution with those in the books about Nabokov and Painting)
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Sebastiano del Piombo - Cavallini to Veronese - Italian ...
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Sebastiano Luciano, known as del Piombo because of his appointment as piombatore papale (keeper of the papal seal). [ ] After Raphael's death in 1520, Sebastiano became the leading painter in Rome. He gradually lost his Venetian style, adopting more monumental forms and a cooler range of colour.[ ] Sebastiano's late religious works were mainly for Spanish patrons, and tend to be more personal and emotional; often painted on marble or slate, they have a greyish tone.[ ]
Berlin. Gemäldegalerie. Portrait of a Lady ('Dorothea'). Wood, 78 x 61.
The sitter - richly dressed in a gold-edged violet gown under a red velvet cloak trimmed in lynx - holds a basket of flowers and quinces in her left hand and gestures towards her heart with her right hand. The portrait dates from Sebastiano's early years in Rome, and is possibly the 'woman in Roman costume' seen by Vasari in the house of Lucca Torrigiani. It is very similar in style to a portrait of a lady, dated 1512, in the Uffizi. Like the Uffizi portrait, it was at one time attributed to Raphael and called the Fornarina. It was described as such when engraved by Thomas Chambers in 1765, when it belonged to the Duke of Marlborough. It has also been called Dorothea ('St Dorothy') because of the basket of flowers. It remained at Blenheim Palace until 1885, when it was bought by Bode for the Berlin Museum. The portrait inspired a short story, La Veneziana (1924), by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Sebastiano del Piombo - Cavallini to Veronese - Italian ...
www.cavallinitoveronese.co.uk/general/view.../65?a..
Sebastiano Luciano, known as del Piombo because of his appointment as piombatore papale (keeper of the papal seal). [ ] After Raphael's death in 1520, Sebastiano became the leading painter in Rome. He gradually lost his Venetian style, adopting more monumental forms and a cooler range of colour.[ ] Sebastiano's late religious works were mainly for Spanish patrons, and tend to be more personal and emotional; often painted on marble or slate, they have a greyish tone.[ ]
Berlin. Gemäldegalerie. Portrait of a Lady ('Dorothea'). Wood, 78 x 61.
The sitter - richly dressed in a gold-edged violet gown under a red velvet cloak trimmed in lynx - holds a basket of flowers and quinces in her left hand and gestures towards her heart with her right hand. The portrait dates from Sebastiano's early years in Rome, and is possibly the 'woman in Roman costume' seen by Vasari in the house of Lucca Torrigiani. It is very similar in style to a portrait of a lady, dated 1512, in the Uffizi. Like the Uffizi portrait, it was at one time attributed to Raphael and called the Fornarina. It was described as such when engraved by Thomas Chambers in 1765, when it belonged to the Duke of Marlborough. It has also been called Dorothea ('St Dorothy') because of the basket of flowers. It remained at Blenheim Palace until 1885, when it was bought by Bode for the Berlin Museum. The portrait inspired a short story, La Veneziana (1924), by Vladimir Nabokov.
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