
Fall of the Giants
Guglielmo della Porta · n.d.
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What the record supports
"Fall of the Giants" is a pen and brown ink drawing by Guglielmo della Porta, executed over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper. The artwork measures 21.8 × 31.1 cm (8 5/8 × 12 1/4 in.) and is classified as a pen and ink drawing. The date of creation is not specified in the provided catalogue data.
The drawing is held by the Art Institute of Chicago as part of The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, residing within the Prints and Drawings department. Its culture is identified as Italian. While no provenance information is listed, the work has been referenced in "Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago" (1997). No exhibitions are recorded.
Guglielmo della Porta is identified as an Italian lawyer born in 1880 and deceased in 1950, based on the artist authority record. This record does not provide further biographical details or art historical context for the artist. Comparable holdings include multiple works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art by a different artist named Guglielmo della Porta, with dates ranging from the 16th to early 17th century.
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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. 516 (ill.).
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