Portrait of a Courtesan was an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1597, depicting the Roman courtesan Fillide Melandroni styled as the goddess Flora, holding a flower to her breast identified in modern scholarship as jasmine, a symbol of erotic love. It belonged to Caravaggio's patron Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani before being bought by King Frederick William III of Prussia in 1815 for the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, where it was destroyed by fire in 1945; it survives today only in photographs.
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Year Created LocationDestroyed, probably in the 1945 fire in Berlin 1 Medium
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Portrait of a Courtesan (Caravaggio), Wikipedia
Infobox, Medium
Oil on canvas
Provenance
was probably destroyed in a great fire that took place in 1945
Genre reference
Portrait of a Courtesan was an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1597, depicting the Roman courtesan Fillide Melandroni styled as the goddess Flora, holding a flower to her breast identified in modern scholarship as jasmine, a symbol of erotic love.
- infobox year field: c. 1597
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