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Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
mid 1560s
Engraving
Support: Cream(3) laid paper
Sheet: 24 x 13.4 cm (9 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1972.149
Catalogue raisonné: Lewis&Boorsch 38
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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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