An Allegory of Bologna
Alessandro Algardi
1630–1639
- Medium
- Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 50.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksgraphiteprints and drawinginorganic materialpaper (fiber product)
About
The coat-of-arms of Bologna is suspended in a fruit tree below which stand Mercury and Minerva; the river god Reno sits to the right with the town of Bologna behind him.
