Collection Highlights
Wig curler
1760-1775
INV.5924.77
Clay
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Amerigo Vespucci (ca. 1454-1512)
Title
Amerigo Vespucci (ca. 1454-1512)
Date
n.d.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 28 x 21 3/4 in. ( 71.1 x 55.2 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Madison McGuire
Object Number
1939.242
Marks
inscription: at top: "Americus Vespuccius"
Gallery Label
This portrait is a copy of an original painted by an unidentified 16th-century artist in the "Gallery of Famous Men" in the Uffizzi, Florence. It shows the navigator and explorer holding a rolled map of the western ocean.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
