Art Institute of Chicago
An Allegory of Bologna
Alessandro AlgardiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f2cd0721228b
- Date
- 1630/39
- Medium
- Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 3163
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The coat-of-arms of Bologna is suspended in a fruit tree below which stand Mercury and Minerva; the river god Reno sits to the right with the town of Bologna behind him.
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- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Feb. 12, 1915 [stamp verso, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in purple] to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), recto, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in black].
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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