Pope Visiting Construction Site of a Bridge
Ciro Ferri
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, pieced and laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
12.7 × 46.9 cm (5 × 18 1/2 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82129
About the Artist
Ciro Ferri
Ciro Ferri (1634–1689) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver who served as the principal artistic heir and studio assistant of Pietro da Cortona, the dominant decorative painter of seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Rome, Ferri entered Cortona's workshop as a young man and proved so skilled that he became the master's most trusted collaborator, eventually taking over the completion of major c...