Art Institute of Chicago
An Allegory of Bologna
Alessandro Algardi
- 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
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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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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