An Allegory of Bologna

Prints and Drawings

1630/39

Alessandro Algardi
Italian, 1598-1654

The coat-of-arms of Bologna is suspended in a fruit tree below which stand Mercury and Minerva; the river god Reno sits to the right with the town of Bologna behind him.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Alessandro Algardi
Title: An Allegory of Bologna
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.: 1630–1639
Medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "d'algardi"; verso, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "3"
Dimensions: 36.5 × 50.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.3479
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Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Sculptors’ Drawings Over Six Centuries,” July 23-Sept. 20, 1981.
Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, “Alessandro Algardi, Lo Scultore e i suoi Committenti nella Roma del Seicento,” Jan. 20-Apr. 30, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection,” Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015, hors cat.

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Feb. 12, 1915 [stamp verso, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in purple] to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), recto, lower right, and verso, center of mount, in black].

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