Ruins of Roman Forum, with Figures

Prints and Drawings

c. 1550

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, called Battista Vicentino
Italian, 1520-1583

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the elder
Title: Ruins of Roman Forum, with Figures
Origin: Italy
Date: 1548–1552
Medium: Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 204 × 314 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.3363

Konrad Oberhuber, “Hieronymus Cock, Battista Pittoni und Paolo Veronese in Villa Maser,” Munuscula Discipulorum (Berlin, 1968), no. 175 (ill.), p. 207-19.
Konrad Oberhuber, “Gli affreschi di Paolo Veronese nella villa Barbaro,” Bellettino del Centro Internatzionale di Studi di Architettura (ed. Andrea Palladio), (Venice, 1968), p. 188-202
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. 193-94, no. 251 (ill.).

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

McCullagh & Giles 251

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