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'The Young Cicero Reading' is the only surviving fresco from the Banco Mediceo, Milan. In 1455 Francesco Sforza gave the Palazzo to Cosimo de’Medici, who had it lavishly restyled. Foppa, the leading Lombard master of the quattrocento period, was commissioned to fresco the courtyard. 'The Young Cicero Reading' may have been intended to accompany the Virtues as an emblem of Rhetoric, one of the Liberal Arts. Set in the open courtyard for four hundred years, the fresco was removed, c.1863, framed and extensively retouched, which explains some of the compositional inconsistencies which are now apparent.

The Wallace Collection

London

Title

The Young Cicero Reading

Date

c.1464

Medium

fresco transferred to canvas mounted on panel (?)

Measurements

H 101.6 x W 143.7 cm

Accession number

P538

Acquisition method

acquired by Sir Richard Wallace, 1872; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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