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Hand Mirror
Ancient Etruscan · 470-450 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- R. Zeitz collection, London [according to note in curatorial object file]; sold to Michael Ward, Inc. New York by 1983 [excerpt from dealer catalog in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, February 28, 1987 - August 26, 1987.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection (Part 2), Gallery 120A, January 13, 1989 - February 21, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012 - November 1, 2018 and March 30, 2023 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1984-85 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), pp. 54, 16 (ill.).
- Richard De Puma, Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, U.S.A. I: Midwestern Collections (Ames, 1987), p. 60, no. 41, figs. a-e.
- Richard De Puma, "Etruscan Art" in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 20, no. 1 (1994), p. 58 (ill.), no. 37.
- <a href=https://archive.artic.edu/cleo><em>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World</em></a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).
- James Wood, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000), p. 72 (ill.).
- Classical Philology, vol. 95, no. 2 (April 2000), cover image.
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