Description:
elaborate stone structure with arches in a landscape; upsidedown image of another building in a landscape
Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Sara Ottomano, class of 2015:
In 1500, Baccio della Porta took vows to become a friar and during summer retreats he would visit the monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena, a hospice for traveling, elderly, or infirm friars. After Fra Bartolommeo’s death, his drawings came into the possession of nuns at a convent in Florence who—out of ignorance—used his drawings for kindling or wrapping paper. Eventually a collector bought the drawings, saving them from destruction. The collector William Kent bound an album of forty-one landscape drawings that was broken up and dispersed at auction over fifty years ago. Twelve sheets were bought by American museums, including the SCMA.
Tags:
landscapes; architecture Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1957.59 |
