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Zeri, <EM>Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections</EM>, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 79","date":1972,"id":572,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/488066386"},{"boilertext":"Laurence B. Kanter, \"Luca Signorellia and Girolamo Genga in Princeton,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 62 (2003): p.&nbsp;68-83.","citation":"Laurence B. Kanter, \"Luca Signorellia and Girolamo Genga in Princeton,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 62 (2003): p.&nbsp;68-83., p. 76, fig. 9","date":2003,"id":3017,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774821"},{"boilertext":"\"Recent acquisitions,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM>&nbsp;22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19.","citation":"\"Recent acquisitions,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM>&nbsp;22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16","date":1963,"id":1867,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774326"},{"boilertext":"<P>George H. Edgell, <EM>A history of Sienese painting</EM>, (New York: L. MacVeagh, 1932).</P>","citation":"<P>George H. Edgell, <EM>A history of Sienese painting</EM>, (New York: L. MacVeagh, 1932).</P>, p. 228; fig. 441","date":1932,"id":4537,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/2217374"},{"boilertext":"Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, \"'Richerche senesi': Il Palazzo del Magnifico Pandolfo Petrucci\", <EM>Prospettiva</EM> 29 (Apr., 1982): p. 24-31.","citation":"Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, \"'Richerche senesi': Il Palazzo del Magnifico Pandolfo Petrucci\", <EM>Prospettiva</EM> 29 (Apr., 1982): p. 24-31., p. 30, fig. 17","date":1982,"id":4568,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/24426330"},{"boilertext":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'>Cecil H. Clough, \"Pandolfo Petrucci e il concetto di 'magnificenza,\" <EM>Arte, Committenza ed Economia a Roma e nelle Corti del Rinascimento (1420-1530), Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Rome, 24-27 October 1990</EM>, (Turin, 1995).</SPAN></P>","citation":"<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'>Cecil H. Clough, \"Pandolfo Petrucci e il concetto di 'magnificenza,\" <EM>Arte, Committenza ed Economia a Roma e nelle Corti del Rinascimento (1420-1530), Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Rome, 24-27 October 1990</EM>, (Turin, 1995).</SPAN></P>","date":1995,"id":4569,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/849279348"},{"boilertext":"Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini, <EM>Pintoricchio</EM>, (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, ©2008).","citation":"Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini, <EM>Pintoricchio</EM>, (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, ©2008)., p. 283 (illus.); p. 282, cat. no. 58","date":2008,"id":4570,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/209338437"},{"boilertext":"Nicole Dacos, \"<SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'>De Pinturicchio a Michelangelo di Pietro da Lucca: les premieres grotesques romaines\", in ed. 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A personification of Prudence and another, unidentified figure from the same decorative cycle are also in the Museum’s collection. Minerva, her shield emblazoned with the Gorgon’s head, wears a breastplate with a candelabrum shape, a Renaissance adaptation of an ancient ornament. To her left, the upper bodies of children, with chicken feet and wings, protrude from vines. The simulated mosaic background indicates that these hybrid creatures exist on another level of reality and are part of the architectural framework. Siena was among the first artistic centers that responded to the discovery of Nero’s Golden House in Rome in the late fifteenth century; its artists were inspired by the wall paintings, which offered a new decorative mode sanctioned by antiquity. These new works were called “grotesques,” from their source in grottoes (subterranean rooms).","remarks":"K1-3 May 2012"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Palazzo Petrucci, Siena. Dan Fellows Platt (1873 -1938), Englewood, NJ; by descent to Ethel Bliss Platt (1881-1971) [1]; 1962 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.\n<p>\n\tNotes \n</p>\n<p>\n\t[1] Dan Fellows Platt left his collections to the University but gave his wife life-tenure and the right to sell  \n</p>","remarks":"From accession card. "}],"datebegin":1506,"sortnumber":"1962   62y","published_date":"2026-03-05 09:06:36.875909","objectid":28853,"dimensions":"86 × 116 cm (33 7/8 × 45 11/16 in.)\r\nframe: 101.3 × 130.8 × 7.3 cm (39 7/8 × 51 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)","on_view":true}