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Nov 15, 2011
Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin
Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin
1830
Domenico Quaglio
(German, 1787–1837)
Gray and brown wash and framing lines in pen and black ink
Watermarks: Whatman/Turkey Mill
Support: Cream wove paper
Sheet: 24.1 x 16.8 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Image: 23.2 x 15.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 in.)
Anonymous gift in honor of Leona E. Prasse 1980.218
Catalogue raisonné: Trost 195
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Gothic architecture, the type seen in this drawing, was associated with Germany based on a false assumption that a Germanic tribe, the Goths, had originated the style.
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Rejecting the preference for the landscape and architecture of Italy, as seen in the work of many of his contemporaries, Domenico Quaglio portrayed the buildings of his native Germany. Here, Quaglio depicted a man, woman, and child who are dwarfed by the immense scale of a Gothic cathedral’s ruined arch, within which the figures appear. Overrun by vines and set within a dense forest, the architecture signifies the magnitude of God in the Christian faith and the smallness of mankind.
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