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A work made of black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper.

An Allegory of Bologna

1630/39

Alessandro Algardi Italian, 1598-1654

Italy

The coat-of-arms of Bologna is suspended in a fruit tree below which stand Mercury and Minerva; the river god Reno sits to the right with the town of Bologna behind him.

Black chalk on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on ivory laid paper

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