About This Artwork

Italian

Ring with Cameo showing Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola, Cameo: 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

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.