About This Artwork
Ring with Cameo showing Portrait of Girolamo SavonarolaCameo: early 16th century; ring, (?)
Cameo: agate; ring: gold
2.9 x 2.5 cm (1 3/16 x 1 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.554
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 6.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Triumph of Humanism, October 22, 1977-Janurary 8. 1978, cat. 92.
Publication History
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 58-59 and 94, no. 23.
Ownership History
Ogden, London [according to Wardropper 2000]. Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, by 1992; given to the Art Institute, 1992.