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Design for Two Vases and an Ornament (recto); Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)

mid 1500s

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Luzio Romano

(Italian, active 1528–75)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash (left vase), over black chalk

Sheet: 31.6 x 21.6 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1190

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower center, in brown ink: Pierino

Provenance

[P. & D. Colnaghi Co.]

Citations

Vaiani, Elena, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, and Helen Whitehouse. Egyptian and Roman Antiquities and Renaissance Decorative Arts. London : Royal Collection Trust in association with Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018. Mentioned: p. 640

Exhibition history

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983).

Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).