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Triple Portrait of Arrigo, Pietro and Amon
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'''''Triple Portrait of Arrigo, Pietro and Amon''''' is a 1598-1600 painting by [[Agostino Carracci]], produced in Rome whilst he was assisting his brother [[Annibale Carracci]] with the frescoes in the [[Palazzo Farnese]] for [[Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)|Odoardo Farnese]]. It is now in the [[National Museum of Capodimonte]] in Naples.
Previously misidentified as an allegorical or mythological artwork, Roberto Zapperi has identified it instead as a group portrait. To the right is the hairy-faced Arrigo, a sufferer from [[hypertrichosis]], with the head of 'Pietro Matto' or 'Mad Peter' in the top right hand corner. To the left is the [[dwarfism|dwarf]] Amon, with a parrot on his shoulder and a dog under his right arm.<ref> Roberto Zapperi, ''L'incredibile storia di Pedro Gonzales'', Roma, 2005.</ref><ref> Roberto Zapperi, 'Arrigo le velù, Pietro le fou, Amon le nain et autres bêtes: autour d'un tableau d'Agostino Carrache', in ''Annales Economies, Sociétes, Civilisations'', n. 40 (1985), pp. 307–327.</ref>
==References==
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[[category:1600 paintings]]
[[category:16th-century portraits]]
[[category:Group portraits]]
[[category:Paintings of the National Museum of Capodimonte]]
[[category:Works about dwarfism]]
'''''Triple Portrait of Arrigo, Pietro and Amon''''' is a 1598-1600 painting by [[Agostino Carracci]], produced in Rome whilst he was assisting his brother [[Annibale Carracci]] with the frescoes in the [[Palazzo Farnese]] for [[Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)|Odoardo Farnese]]. It is now in the [[National Museum of Capodimonte]] in Naples.
Previously misidentified as an allegorical or mythological artwork, Roberto Zapperi has identified it instead as a group portrait. To the right is the hairy-faced Arrigo, a sufferer from [[hypertrichosis]], with the head of 'Pietro Matto' or 'Mad Peter' in the top right hand corner. To the left is the [[dwarfism|dwarf]] Amon, with a parrot on his shoulder and a dog under his right arm.<ref> Roberto Zapperi, ''L'incredibile storia di Pedro Gonzales'', Roma, 2005.</ref><ref> Roberto Zapperi, 'Arrigo le velù, Pietro le fou, Amon le nain et autres bêtes: autour d'un tableau d'Agostino Carrache', in ''Annales Economies, Sociétes, Civilisations'', n. 40 (1985), pp. 307–327.</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[category:1600 paintings]]
[[category:16th-century portraits]]
[[category:Group portraits]]
[[category:Paintings of the National Museum of Capodimonte]]
[[category:Works about dwarfism]]
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