A Wikipedia article on the Flemish court painter Justus Sustermans, describing his portrait of Galileo Galilei as a half-bust showing Galileo's face lit and looking upward outside the frame, commissioned by Elia Diodati when Galileo was around seventy, with versions at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Sustermans
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference on the artist, giving the fuller composition and commission detail behind the atlas's other Galileo portrait source. Connections
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This source names Florence directly: "with versions at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich."
Source Justus Sustermans (Wikipedia)
This source names Galileo Galilei directly: "Sustermans, describing his portrait of Galileo Galilei as a half-bust showing Galileo's face lit and looking upward outside the frame, commissioned by Elia Diodati when Galileo was around seventy..."
Source Justus Sustermans (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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