Study for Allegory of Faith and Silence

Prints and Drawings

1500/95

Bartolomeo Cesi (Italian, 1556-1629)
or School of Perino del Vaga (Italian, 1500/01-1547)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bartolomeo Cesi
Title: Study for Allegory of Faith and Silence
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1500–1595
Medium: Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash, with traces of red chalk, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory wove card
Dimensions: 26.8 × 22.5 cm (10 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2432
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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), p. 88, no. 112 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-June 22, 1997.

McCullagh & Giles 112

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