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Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers
Provenance
Sold by Michael Miller/Lucy Vivant Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, to John A. Bross, Mar. 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
Publications
Louise Smith Bross, The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study of the Development of Art, Architecture, and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, Ph.D. dissertation University of Chicago, 1994, p. 373, fig, 257, p. 885 Louise Smith Bross, “She is among all virgins the queen…,” in Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl (eds.), Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 280–97, pl. 60.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Livio Agresti / Italian, 1508–1579
- Date
- 1562/63
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, pieced
- Dimensions
- Sight: 50.5 × 39.5 cm (19 15/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
- Accession no.
- 2014.1140
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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-00006141
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