Birth of Alexander

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio
Italian, c. 1499-c. 1543

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Polidoro da Caravaggio
Title: Birth of Alexander
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.: 1601–1700
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 10.5 × 9.2 cm (4 3/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.622
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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. 367-68 and 371, no. 596 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-October 8, 1988.

McCullagh & Giles 596

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