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    DOMENICO FETTI (ROME C. 1588-VENICE 1623)

    Vincenzo Avogadro

    1620

    RCIN 405327

    The inscription identifies the sitter of this powerful portrait as Vincenzo Avogadro, rector of the church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio in Mantua, and gives his age as 35. In his hands he holds a book, and in the upper left-hand corner is a crucifix. The nervous touch of Fetti’s brush strokes delineating Avogado’s face against the darkness gives the portrait a haunting quality.

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