The Massacre of the Innocents

Prints and Drawings

1561

Giovanni Battista de’ Cavalieri (Italian, c. 1525–1601)
probably after Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510–1563) or Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1488–1560)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri
Title: The Massacre of the Innocents
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1561
Medium: Engraving in black on two sheets of ivory laid paper, joined
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper center, in pen and black ink: “118”; lower center, in graphite: “B. Bandinelli. G. B. de Cavalieri”
Dimensions: Plate/sheets: 47.5 × 59.8 cm (18 3/4 × 23 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.705
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Paola Pizzamano, Giovanni Battista Cavalieri: un incisore trentino nella Roma dei papi del Cinquecento: Villa Lagarina
1525 - Roma 1601, Rovereto, 2001, p. 112

Eric Stanley (1923–2018), Oxford; by descent; sold by Eric Gillis, Brussels, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Le Blanc 7 I/III

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