Ceiling Design with Mars Driving His Chariot

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Prints and Drawings

1565/69

Lattanzio Gambara
Italian, c. 1530-1574

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Lattanzio Gambara
Title: Ceiling Design with Mars Driving His Chariot
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1565–1569
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: illegible
Dimensions: 22.8 × 29.7 cm (9 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson
Reference Number: 1970.607
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Harold Joachim, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen, The Art Institute of Chicago, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 88, no. 3C4 (as Anonymous, Sixteenth Century, Northern Italy, Phaeton Riding on the Clouds) (ill. microfiche).
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. 112-13, no. 143 (ill.).

Given by Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1970.

McCullagh & Giles 143

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