Mythological Pageant (recto); Illegible Inscriptions and Anatomical Studies of Head (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Girolamo Genga

Title

Mythological Pageant (recto); Illegible Inscriptions and Anatomical Studies of Head (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1528–1529

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

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"

Dimensions

50.8 × 36 cm (20 × 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.825

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