Allegory of Painting 1635 Strozzi Bernardo, 1581/1644 Italy, Italian, Bernardo Strozzi painted this canvas over the course of his Venetian years. The artist was a Capuchin friar and left Genoa when religious obligations prevented him from continuing to paint outside the convent. The Allegory of Painting, in representing a woman who proudly displays the tools of the trade, celebrates the new freedom conquered by the artist in Venice.

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