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Drawing

Object/Work Catalog Level: item
Type: preparatory drawing
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Classification Terms: prints and drawings
            European art
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Titles or Names Text: Group of Nine Standing Figures
    Preference: preferred
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Creation Creator Description: Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540) Free text
  Identity: Parmigianino
    Role: draftsman
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  Creation Date: mid 1520s 
Earliest: 1523  Latest: 1527
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  Creation Place/Original Location: Rome (Lazio, Italy) Free text
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Styles/Periods/Groups/ Movements Indexing Term: Mannerist Authority
Measurements Dimensions Description: 12.4 x 13.1 cm (4 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches) Free text
  Value: 12.4 Unit: cm Type: height
Value:
13.1 Unit: cm Type: width
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Materials and Techniques Description: : pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid cardboard Free text
  Extent: image
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                  ink Role: medium
                  wash Role: medium
                  laid paper Role: support

Extent: secondary support
Material Name:
cardboard
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Inscriptions Transcription or Description: inscribed verso on mount, at left, in pen and brown ink (by. A. M. Zanetti): e La stampa intagliata all'acqua / forte in Londra da Enrico Vander / Borcht da [questo] disegno, che era di / quelli dello studio famoso del S. Conte / d'Arondell Inglese; at center left, in graphite: Parmigianino; at lower left, in graphite: S. Woodburn Free text
Subject Matter Indexing Terms:
    human figures
    religion/mythology
    Marriage of the Virgin (Christian iconography)
    apostles
    drapery
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Descriptive Note Text: Probably created in Rome. This drawing may have been a preparatory study for several figures and drapery for a religious composition, possibly for a Marriage of the Virgin. It was used by Hendrik van der Borcht the younger in an etching of six standing apostles. Free text
Related Works Related Object/Work Label/Identification: Six Apostles Standing; etching; Hendrik van der Borcht the younger (Dutch, 1614-ca.1690); 1636/1646
Relationship Type: basis for
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Current Location Repository Name/Geographic Location: Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Repository Numbers: 1978.275
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