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Two Scenes of Augustus: The Sibyl Shows Augustus the Virgin and Augustus Worshiping
attributed to Livio Agresti, ca. 1508 - 1579; born Forli, Italy; died Rome, Italy
x1947-78
Information
Title
Two Scenes of Augustus: The Sibyl Shows Augustus the Virgin and Augustus Worshiping
Maker
attributed to Livio Agresti
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk
Dimensions
12.9 x 24.5 cm. (5 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1947-78
Inscription
in ink, lower left center: Livio da Forli [in unknown hand]
in ink, center of mount: Livio Agresti da Forli | Allievo di Perino del Vaga [in unknown hand]
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Materials
Subject
- "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 7., p. 7
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 116, no. 379 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Richard-Raymond Alasko, Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome (Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art: University of Notre Dame, 1983)., p. 61; p. 31 (illus.), cat. no. 1
