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Mythological Pageant (recto); Illegible Inscriptions and Anatomical Studies of Head (verso)
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.
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, across top of mount, in graphite: "G. Romano"; on mount, in pen and black ink and graphite: illegible inscriptions and anatomical studies of head (keyed with letters; Fig. 21); inscribed recto on former mount (GCI): "Andrea Mantegna"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997 (recto)
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. 114-15 no. 146 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Girolamo Genga / Italian, c. 1476-1551
- Date
- 1528/29
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink over charcoal, on ivory laid paper (recto), and pen and black ink and graphite (verso) laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 36 cm (20 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.825
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00004608
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