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Scene of a Village Square in Tuscany,
1633
Remigio Cantagallina, Italian, ca. 1582–1656
x1956-32
More Context
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
Scene of a Village Square in Tuscany
Dates
1633
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk and graphite on light tan laid paper
Dimensions
24.8 × 39.4 cm (9 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)
frame: 46.7 × 61.1 × 2.5 cm (18 3/8 × 24 1/16 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1956-32
Place Depicted
Europe, Italy, Tuscany
Inscription
Inscribed recto, center left, in brown ink: 6 di luglio
1633.
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 139
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Rev. Dr. Henry Wellesley, Oxford (1791–1866); Sir David Kelly, London; H. M. Calmann (1899–1982), London; Mathias Komor, stamp (L. 1882a) verso, lower left, in blue.;
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- 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. 53, cat. no. 21; p. 54 (illus.)
