Portrait Of Galileo Galilei An Inscribed And Dated Florentine Copy After Justus Sustermans

by Galileo Galilei

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Florence: Luigi Pompignoli, 1882. / Oil on canvas portrait of Galileo Galilei by the Florentine painter Luigi Pompignoli, after the celebrated prototype by Justus Sustermans in the Uffizi inv. 1890 no. 745, c. 1635–36 , inscribed and dated on the verso. The Sustermans portrait, painted from life during Galileo’s years of house arrest at Arcetri, is the canonical image of the astronomer in old age and the visual source for virtually every

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