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Filippo Napoletano

Shipwreck

1622-23
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
12.2 × 33.7 cm (4.8 × 13.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Sent to Naples from his native Rome as a child, Filippo carried the moniker of his adopted city as he went on to become an important artist at the court of Cosimo II de’ Medici in Florence.

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