- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1962.336
- People
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Giovanni Battista Benvenuti, called Ortolano, Italian (1487 - c. 1527)
Previously attributed to Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa, Italian (Ferrara, Italy 1460 - 1535 Mantua, Italy)
- Title
- Allegorical Figure of a Woman Holding A Circle
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Allegorical Figure of a Woman Holding A Wheel
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 15th-16th century
- Culture
- Italian, Emilian, Ferrarese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228275
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 41.9 x 32.2 cm (16 1/2 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: back of panel, black ink, typewritten: 187.35, lent by Mr. C. P. Curtis
- label: back of panel, black ink, handwritten: T.L. / 1503 / for examination / Mr. [Clarke?] P. Curtis
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Lillian Malcove
- Accession Year
- 1962
- Object Number
- 1962.336
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), pp. 57 [as by Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa the elder], 152 [as by Benvenuti]
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
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