Portret van politicus Giovanni Battista Lorenzo Bogino 19th century

Giovanni Antonio Sasso created this portrait of Giovanni Battista Lorenzo Bogino using engraving, a medium often employed to disseminate images of political figures. Bogino stands here as a figure of the Enlightenment, amidst a shifting landscape of power and governance. As a politician, his identity was closely tied to the administration and the aristocratic class. This portrait captures not just an individual, but also the spirit of an era marked by intellectual ferment. Notice how the trappings of power – the books, the robes, the very act of being immortalized in print – contribute to the construction of Bogino's identity. This image tells us less about Bogino as a person and more about the values and aspirations of the society he inhabited, inviting us to reflect on who gets remembered and how their stories are told.