Anselm Feuerbach
(1829-1880)
Bildnis einer Römerin (Nanna),
1862
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
101 x 82,3 cm
Displayed
Sammlung Schack Saal 15
Acquisition
1863 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München
Citation
Anselm Feuerbach, Bildnis einer Römerin (Nanna), 1862, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/XR4MJwjxQ1 (Last updated on 19.06.2023)
The rather severe, unapproachable aura of this image of the artist’s lover in Rome, Anna Risi (‘Nanna’), recalls the Renaissance and Mannerist portraits that Feuerbach saw in Florence: ‘I set foot in the Tribuna [in the Uffizi] in the late afternoon. An emotion overcame me for which the Bible uses the word ”revelation”. The past was obliterated, the French moderns became daubers and my future path lay clear and bright before me.’
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