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Ruins of Roman Forum, with Figures
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Publications
Konrad Oberhuber, "Hieronymus Cock, Battista Pittoni und Paolo Veronese in Villa Maser," Munuscula Discipulorum (Berlin, 1968), no. 175 (ill.), p. 207-19. Konrad Oberhuber, "Gli affreschi di Paolo Veronese nella villa Barbaro," Bellettino del Centro Internatzionale di Studi di Architettura (ed. Andrea Palladio), (Venice, 1968), p. 188-202 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. 193-94, no. 251 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, called Battista Vicentino / Italian, 1520-1583
- Date
- c. 1550
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 × 31.4 cm (8 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.3363
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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