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Votive (Gift) in the Shape of a Woman's Head
Ancient Etruscan · about 500 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Matthias Komor, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1975.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Early Greek Art, A Preview, Part One, Gallery 101A, September 1, 1988 – May 24, 1989.
- 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 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1974-75 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 31.
- Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 72, no. 1 (January-February, 1978), pp. 1-5.
- Lousie Berge and Warren G. Moon, "An Etruscan Votive Head in the Classical Collection," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 72, 1 (January-February, 1978), pp. 2-5.
- Steven George Smithers, "The Typology and Iconography of Etruscan Terracotta Curotrophic Votives: The Heads and Bambini," (Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1988), pp. 61-63, 67, 69, 96, 266, and 291-92 (cat. no. 22).
- Richard De Puma, "Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 1 (1994), pp. 60, 61 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, “Etruscan Art” in Family Self-Guide, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1994).
- Karen Alexander, "The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," Minerva vol. 5, no. 3 (May/June, 1994), p. 31, fig. 8.
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