Giovanni Caccini (Attributed to)
Italian, 1556-1612

Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus, 1590/1600

Terracotta, traces of polychromy
27 x 34 1/2 in. (68.6 x 87.6 cm)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1968.316

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1968-69, p. 16.

Charles Avery, "The Bull of Perillus: A Relief attributed to Giovanni Caccini," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 6 (1971), pp. 22-33.

Ownership History

Artibus, Geneva, before 1968 [according to Commission Book, 1968–69, Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; Heim Gallery, London, by 1968; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.