About this artwork
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Currently Off View
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Andrea Boscoli
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Title
- Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent
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Origin
- Italy
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Date
- 1595–1599
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and grayish-green wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, lower left near center, in pen and brown ink: "Polidorus"; recto, lower right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Polidoro da Carav[gio]"
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Dimensions
- 110 × 167 mm
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.619
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