Backplate
Italian School
c. 1590/1600
Medium
Steel, etched
Dimensions
36.9 × 35 × 15.6 cm (14 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
suit-element
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
116345
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Italian School · 1800–1899
The Italian School of the nineteenth century encompasses the diverse artistic output of painters, sculptors, and architects working across the Italian peninsula from 1800 to 1899, a period marked by profound political change including foreign occupations, the Risorgimento movement, and national unification in 1861. This era saw Italian art transition from Enlightenment ideals through Neoclassicism...