Design for a Façade Decoration

Prints and Drawings

c. 1548

Circle of Girolamo Genga
Italian, c. 1476-1551

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Circle of Girolamo Genga
Title: Design for a Façade Decoration
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.: 1546–1550
Medium: Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white, on blue laid paper, edge mounted to cream laid paper with ornamental border in brush and gold paint
Dimensions: 26 × 39.7 cm (10 1/4 × 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.3276
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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. 115-16, no. 147 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

McCullagh & Giles 147

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