Giorgio Vasari
1511-1574
Design for the Ceiling of the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
1563
3 13/16 x 8 5/8 inches (97 x 219 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper darkened to a light brown.
1984.60
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed, just left of lower center, in pen and brown ink, "sogliano."; on verso, in graphite, "Eleve de fra Bartolomé de s.t [t superscript] marc.~ 10"; and at center, in black chalk, "3".
Inscribed, just left of lower center, in pen and brown ink, "sogliano."; on verso, in graphite, "Eleve de fra Bartolomé de s.t [t superscript] marc.~ 10"; and at center, in black chalk, "3".
Associated names
Sogliani, Giovanni Antonio, 1492-1544, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 98; Milwaukee 1964, no. 39; Thiem 1968, 144 (as Naldini); Pillsbury 1976, 128-29; Thiem 1976, 270-71 (as Naldini); Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253, no. 27-28; Fellows Report 1989, 385; Florence 2000, 48, no. 16; Härb 2015, 444, 447, no. 285.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 98.
Edmund Pillsbury, "The Sala Grade Drawings by Vasari and His Workshop: Some Documents and New Attributions, " Master Drawings, XIV, no. 2, 1976, 128, pl. 3.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 385.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 98.
Edmund Pillsbury, "The Sala Grade Drawings by Vasari and His Workshop: Some Documents and New Attributions, " Master Drawings, XIV, no. 2, 1976, 128, pl. 3.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 385.
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