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Alessandro Algardi
[Italian Baroque Era Sculptor, ca.1598-1654]
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Alessandro Algardi Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Alessandro Algardi at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Saint Peter, 1646/49
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 9 works by Algardi
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Venus in Her Sea Chariot Suckling Cupid, 1645 Landscape with Holy Family, 1650
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Eros and Anteros
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide The Flagellation, bronze, 1620s (with François Duquesnoy)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 18 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Pietà
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome Bust of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago The Flagellation of Christ, ca.1630
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Musei Capitolini, Rome Statue of Pope Innocent X, 1645-50
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Flagellation group
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW! Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 3 works online when last checked
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Alessandro Algardi at The Art Renewal Center
Alessandro Algardi in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian) 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alessandro Algardi  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "Casting Light on a Baroque Sculptor," article by Roderick Conway Morris
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