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Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
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Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock
Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
application
Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock

Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo

Jacob Ferdinand Voet

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Royal Palace Museum

Royal Palace Museum

Via Balbi, 10, Genoa

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The contribution of Giovanni Luca Durazzo was decisive for the purchase of the building in via Balbi in 1679 by his brother Eugenio. Among the various positions in the service of the Republic, Giovanni Luca held for the second time in the two-year period 1669-1670 that of Genoese ambassador at the papal court. During that stay in Rome, most likely, the execution of the extraordinary painting by the Flemish painter, one of the major portrait painters of the Roman nobility in the second half of the seventeenth century, fell. The Genoese patrician wears a Venetian lace tie, a black jacket embellished with an elegant lace fringe and a wig of brown curls according to the dictates of late Louis XIV fashion. The penetrating vividness of the expression, the gaze that inclines to smile, the refined technique, make it one of the highest quality portraits in the collection of the Genoese museum.
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Title: Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo

Author: Jacob Ferdinand Voet

Date: 1669-1670

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Royal Palace Museum

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