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Fall of the Giants

Guglielmo della Porta · 1550/59

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What the record supports

"Fall of the Giants" is a drawing created by Guglielmo della Porta between 1550 and 1559. It is rendered in pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper. The artwork measures 21.1 × 35.5 cm (8 5/16 × 14 in.) and is classified as ink with wash within the Prints and Drawings department.

The artist, Guglielmo della Porta, is identified with an Italian lawyer born in 1880 and died in 1950, according to the provided artist authority record (Q115362017, VIAF ID 3264699). However, this birth and death date appears inconsistent with a work dated 1550/59. Nationality is not stated in the artist's record, though the artwork's culture is noted as Italian.

The drawing is part of The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection and is held by the Art Institute of Chicago. No provenance or exhibition history is supplied in the provided data. The work has been cited in "Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection" (1997).

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Literature

Published references

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. 344 and 346, no. 515 (ill.).

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