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Alessandro Algardi

An Allegory of Bologna

1630/39
Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper
36.5 × 50.5 cm (14.4 × 19.9 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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