Ring with Cameo Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola

c.1500-c. 1550

Italian

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Ring with Cameo Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola
Place: Italy (Object made in)
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.: 1500–1550
Medium: Gold and agate
Dimensions: 2.9 × 2.5 cm (1 3/16 × 1 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.554
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Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 58-59 and 94, no. 23.

Chicago, The Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 6.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Triumph of Humanism, October 22, 1977-Janurary 8. 1978, cat. 92.
Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 - June 14, 1987, no cat.+

James Ogden and Sons, Ltd, London, by June, 1974; sold to James Alsdorf, Winnetka, June 1974 [copy of letter and receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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