Study for Allegory of Two Quartieri of Florence

Prints and Drawings

1563/65

Giorgio Vasari
Italian, 1511-1574

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giorgio Vasari
Title: Study for Allegory of Two Quartieri of Florence
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.: 1563–1565
Medium: Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: "Cherubino Alberti"
Dimensions: 21.4 × 16.1 cm (8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.468
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 248-349, no. 323 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago,”The Medici Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence,” Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003.

Dr. William Ogle (1827-1905); sold, Sotheby’s, London, Feb. 6, 2013, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 323

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