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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso) by Paolo Farinati
    Paolo Farinati. Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso), c. 1588. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003530

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    Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

    by Paolo Farinati

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

    Publications

    Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 102-03, no. 130 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paolo Farinati / Italian, 1524-1606
    Date
    c. 1588
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (recto), and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper (verso), on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    25.4 × 42 cm (10 × 16 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink with wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.766

    Provenance

    The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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    Open-access museum record · AT-00003530

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