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Study for the Purification of the Virgin
Giovanni Battista Naldini · c. 1577
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, August 4, 1994-January 31, 1995.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque," March 26-July 8, 2012, pl 42, pp. 92-93, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Annamaria Petrioli Tofani and Graham Smith, Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Drawings from the Uffizi, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988), under cat. 57.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Recent Acquisitions of Florentine Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” L’Arte del Disegno 3 (January 1997), pp. 63–65, fig. 3 (ill).
- 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. 186-87, no. 188 (ill.).
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