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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study for the Purification of the Virgin by Giovanni Battista Naldini
    Giovanni Battista Naldini. Study for the Purification of the Virgin, c. 1577. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005479

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    Study for the Purification of the Virgin

    by Giovanni Battista Naldini

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed, recto, upper center, along central column, in red chalk: "C•15..C•b 1-14"; lower left, on former mount: "Batista / Naldini / Pasigniano"

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, August 4, 1994-January 31, 1995. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque," March 26-July 8, 2012, pl 42, pp. 92-93, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et. al.

    Publications

    Annamaria Petrioli Tofani and Graham Smith, Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Drawings from the Uffizi, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988), under cat. 57. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Recent Acquisitions of Florentine Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” L’Arte del Disegno 3 (January 1997), pp. 63–65, fig. 3 (ill). 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. 186-87, no. 188 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Naldini / Italian, 1537-1591
    Date
    c. 1577
    Medium
    Red and black chalk with stumping, and incising, over pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk
    Dimensions
    40.9 × 27.2 cm (16 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Anne Searle Bent
    Accession no.
    1993.193

    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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