Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo

Painting by Paolo Veronese

Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo

Year	1571
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	102.2 cm (40.2 in) × 104.2 cm (41.0 in)
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Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo is an oil painting on canvas by Paolo Veronese, from 1571-1572. It is held in the Cleveland Museum of Art, which bought it in 1928 from Italico Brass.^[1]

Its subject is Agostino Barbarigo, admiral of the Venetian fleet in Lepanto. In the famous naval battle, Barbarigo was killed by an arrow, an event alluded to by the dart that the Venetian admiral is holding in his hand. He wears an armor and appears in a thoughful pose. The red drapery behind him can be interpreted as an allusion to his death,^[2]

References

^ "Catalogue entry". 30 October 2018.
^ The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982, p. 449

Bibliography

Cocke, Richard (2017-10-05). Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-80573-5.
Pignatti, Terisio (1979). The golden century of Venetian painting. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ISBN 9780875870885.
Art, Cleveland Museum of (1974). Catalogue of Paintings: European paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The Museum. ISBN 978-0-910386-66-1.

Paolo Veronese

Paintings

The Conversion of Mary Magdalene (1545–1548)
Bevilacqua-Lazise Altarpiece (1548)
Lament over the Dead Christ (c. 1548)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (New Haven; c. 1547–1550)
Minerva between Geometry and Arithmetic (1550) (attribution)
Venus Disarming Cupid (c. 1550)
Portrait of Iseppo da Porto and his son Adriano (c. 1555)
Annunciation (c. 1556)
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Fur (c. 1550–1560)
Supper at Emmaus (c. 1559–1560)
Portrait of a Young Man Wearing Lynx Fur (1560)
Christ Among the Doctors (c. 1560)
La Bella Nani (c. 1560)
Saint John the Baptist Preaching (c. 1562)
Venus and Adonis (Augsburg; 1562)
Holy Family with Saint Catherine and Saint John the Baptist (c. 1562–1565)
The Wedding at Cana (1563)
Petrobelli Altarpiece (c. 1563)
Allegory of Virtue and Vice (c. 1565)
Allegory of Wisdom and Strength (c. 1565)
The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Turin; c. 1565)
The Martyrdom of Saint George (1566)
Portrait of Daniele Barbaro (c. 1556–1567)
The Family of Darius Before Alexander (1565–1570)
Resurrection of the Widow of Nain's Son (1565–1570)
Madonna and Child with Saints (c. 1565–1570)
The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Milan; 1570)
Venus and Mars (1570s)
Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo (1571–1572)
Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto (c. 1572)
Adoration of the Magi (1573)
The Feast in the House of Levi (1573)
The Martyrdom of Saint Justina (c. 1570–1575)
Bathsheba at her Bath (1575)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Venice; c. 1575)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1575–1580)
Mars and Venus with Cupid and a Dog (c. 1580)
Susannah and the Elders (c. 1580)
Venus and Adonis (Madrid; 1580)
Cephalus and Procris (c. 1580–1584)
Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (c. 1580–1585)
Lucretia (c. 1585)

Painting series

The Allegory of Love (c. 1570)
Duke of Buckingham series (1590s)
The Finding of Moses (Dijon, Dresden, Liverpool ✻, Lyon, Madrid, Smith collection, Turin ✻, Washington)