Currently not on view
View of Pesaro
Bazzicaluva (Ercole Frigoni), Italian, ca. 1610 - 1661
x1993-97
More Context
Special Exhibition
These two drawings by seventeenth-century Florentine artists capture specific locations in different ways. Bazzicaluva’s topographical view of the fortified port of Pesaro (on the Adriatic coast) was produced with tight pen work, regularly spaced hatching, and meticulous detail—in contrast to Cantagallina’s dramatic use of wash and chiaroscuro effects. Unlike the subject of Bazzicaluva’s drawing, the town square represented by Cantagallina is unidentified. Dated “6 July 1633,” this on-the-spot sketch may have belonged to a personal journal.
Information
Title
View of Pesaro
Medium
Pen and brown ink on beige laid paper
Dimensions
14.7 × 21.9 cm (5 13/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
frame: 41.8 × 54.5 × 2.9 cm (16 7/16 × 21 7/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Deborah Strom Gibbons, Graduate School Class of 1979, in memory of alumni and a friend of the Department of Art and Archaeology who have died of AIDS: Guy Bauman, Graduate school Class of 1977, W. Stephen Gardner, Graduate School Class of 1976, Richard C. P. Hsiao, Graduate School Class of 1972; Burr E. Wallen, Class of 1963; and Raymond Ford
Object Number
x1993-97
Place Depicted
Europe, Italy, Pesaro
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower left, in brown ink: Pesaro
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: Two crossed arrows and six-pointed star
Culture
Type
Materials
Durlacher Brothers, New York; Purchased by Felton Gibbons from Durlacher Brothers, New York, 1962 (as Cantagallina); Deborah Strom Gibbons;
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 70
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
