Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209

Provenance

Sold by Margot Gordon, New York, to John A. Bross, Mar. 1998; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

Artist: Livio Agresti / Italian, 1508–1579
Date: n.d.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sight: 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 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.: 2014.1142

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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.