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Project for a Wall Decoration Surrounding a Fire Place

Paolo Farinati
1524-1606

Project for a Wall Decoration Surrounding a Fire Place

sheet: 9 3/4 x 4 inches (24.8 x 10.2 mm); each drawing: 1) 4 x 2 1/8 inches (101 x 54 mm); 2) 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (97 x 138 mm); 3) 3 7/8 x 2 inches (100 x 51 mm); 4) 1 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (29 x 41 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1993.118

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
The drawing is probably an early project for the large rectangular room called the Sala dei Dee in the Villa Nichesola in Ponton San Abrogio, near Verona. A drawing in the Miniscalchi-Erizzo collection, inv. 123, is probably for the same project.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left of "Statue of Apollo? with Lyre between Ionian Columns" in pen and brown ink, "Paulo farinato".
Inscribed at lower left of "Statue of Abundance (or Ceres) with Cornucopia, between Ionian Columns", in pen and brown ink, "Paulo farinato".
Watermark: Shield with doubled, crossed lines (cross) inside, fragment.
Associated names
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department