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Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
Giorgio Ghisimid 1560s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520/21-1582)
Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
(after Giulio Romano?), mid-1560s
Engraving
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1972.149
Scholars disagree about the identity of this allegorical personification.
She has been variously described as Victory, Fortune, Temperance, and the
Primum Mobile (Prime Mover), believed to be a force that generated
celestial motion.
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- Title: Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
- Creator: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520-1582), Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546)
- Date Created: mid 1560s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 24 x 13.4 cm (9 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: purchased from (David Tunick, Inc., NY)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.149
- Medium: engraving
- Inscriptions: lower left, in plate: GMF ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: B 15 34 ; lower center, in graphite: H1600 ; lower right, in graphite: MKH ; lower right, verso, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower right, in pen and brown ink: [illegible]
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Italy, 16th century
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: PR - Engraving
- Accession Number: 1972.149
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