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ID: 700008483
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008483
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Angelica and Medoro (painting (visual work); Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian painter, 1582-1647) ; ca. 1647)
Note: There are other two versions of this subject in which Lanfranco uses the same basic composition for the main group of figures, although they are rectangular in shape; both are in private collections.
Titles:
Angelica and Medoro (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)
Medoro ferito e Angelica (C,U,Italian,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
tondo (painting) [300033622]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

Classifications:
paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1647

Creator Display:
Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian painter, 1582-1647) [preferred,VP]
Lanfranco, Giovanni (Italian painter, 1582-1647) [500022495]
Locations:
Private Collection: Milano [7005903] Milano province (province), Lombardy (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: oil on canvas
oil paint (paint) [300015050]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)
canvas (textile material) [300014078]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: diameter 110.6 cm (43 5/8 inches)
General Subject:
literary (preferred)
human figures

Specific Subjects:
Orlando Furioso [901000908]
.....((Literary works: Poetry, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)
Story of Angelica and Medoro [901000906]
.....((Literary themes and narratives, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)
lovers [300188621]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

Outside Iconography:
Code: 81E MEDORO : 49G22 Term: The wounds of Medoro tended by Angelica
.....Source: Waal, ICONCLASS (1975)

Provenance: Giovan Battista Mellini (Nota dell’eredità del Sr. Giovan Battista Millino, ca. 1625, ASC); Fernando Millini (Nicolai, 2012); (Pietro and Savo Mellini: inventory 1680, poem 1681); Buscaini Collection, Milan (De Marchi, 2001, 53–57); private collection, Milan (sold by Dorotheum auction house).
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Angelica and Medoro........ [VP]
........ GRI, Works in Pietro Mellini's Inventory [online] (2013-) http://www.getty.edu/research/mellini/works/part-1-no-06
Medoro ferito e Angelica........ [VP]
........ Provenace Index Databases, Authority file (1985-) Item 0046 from Archival Inventory I-4733 (Millini)
Subject: ....... [VP]
....................... Mellini, Relatione di molte pitture eccellenti (1681) Part 1, no. 6, 2 recto
....................... GRI, Works in Pietro Mellini's Inventory [online] (2013-) http://www.getty.edu/research/mellini/works/part-1-no-06
....................... Provenace Index Databases, Authority file (1985-) Item 0046 from Archival Inventory I-4733 (Millini)
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... GRI, Works in Pietro Mellini's Inventory [online] (2013-) http://www.getty.edu/research/mellini/works/part-1-no-06
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