Bernardo Strozzi
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- Zuzanna & The Team
For this day, I have chosen the personification of Victory, as it is still hard for me to believe that we have survived all these years :) The painting is a relatively late work, probably from the early years of Strozzi's Venetian period, about 1635-36. It is a far from idealized study of a girl in a darkened setting, equipped with the wings that Fame traditionally possesses. The light falls brightly from the left, highlighting the inquiring face of the sitter and the details of her costume, and thereby shows – to great advantage – the painter’s distinctive handling of the subject. In artistic representations of Fame, the figure usually holds a single trumpet, or two of differing lengths, symbolizing good and ill fame. The significance of the two instruments represented in Strozzi's painting, a golden trumpet and a wooden shawm, is unclear.