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Allegory of the Immaculate Conception with the Fall of Man
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Allegory of the Immaculate Conception with the Fall of Man

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk

Dimensions

21-1/4 x 11-1/2 in. (53.9 x 29.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1971

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Alessandro Turchi

1578–1649Republic of Venice

Early Baroque painter active in Verona and Rome. The nickname "Orbetto" is said to have derived from either his own visual impairment, or from a childhood occupation as a guide for a blind beggar during his poverty-stricken youth. His patrons included Cardinal Scipione Borghese. Comment on works: Religious; History; Mythology

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