Currently not on view
Unidentified allegorical figure
Girolamo Genga, 1476–1551; born Urbino, Italy; died La Valle, Italy
y1962-60
Information
Title
Unidentified allegorical figure
Maker
Medium
Fresco, transferred to canvas and mounted on aluminum support
Dimensions
76.5 × 71 cm (30 1/8 × 27 15/16 in.)
frame: 95.2 × 97.5 × 7 cm (37 1/2 × 38 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
y1962-60
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Siena, Umbria, Palazzo del Magnifico
Culture
Palazzo Magnifico (Petrucci), Siena. Dan Fellows Platt (1873 -1938), Englewood, NJ, by 1932-1938; by descent to Ethel Bliss Platt (1881-1971) [1]; 1962 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes
[1] Dan Fellows Platt left his collections to the University but gave his wife life-tenure and the right to sell
Female figure
- Martin Davies, The earlier Italian schools, (London: National Gallery, 1951). , p. 367-72; cat. no. 910; Appendix III: p. 441-42
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 15
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 119
- Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, "'Richerche senesi': Il Palazzo del Magnifico Pandolfo Petrucci", Prospettiva 29 (Apr., 1982): p. 24-31., p. 31; fig. 19
- Laurence B. Kanter, "Luca Signorellia and Girolamo Genga in Princeton," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 68-83., p. 77, fig. 11
