Italian Landscape, 18th-19th century
Giacomo Quarenghiexpand_more
Pen and brown ink with gray wash on paperexpand_more
Bequest of Professor Alfred Moirexpand_more 2012.58.119
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Giacomo Quarenghi is sometimes called the last of Italy’s great architects. He realized his most ambitious projects in Russia, working for Catherine the Great (1729–1796). In his younger days he traveled throughout Italy, making drawings of architecture wherever he went. This lovely sketch comes from that time. Buildings like these formed Quarenghi’s design sensibility until he encountered the writings of the great Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). After that, he devoted himself to classical ideas from ancient Greek and Roman architecture, filling his work with symmetry and formal colonnades.
Details
- Title
- Italian Landscape
- Artist Life
- 1744 - 1817
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2012.58.119
- Provenance
- [Pietro Scarpa, Venice until 1971; sold July 10 for 140,000 lire to Moir]; Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara (1971-d. 2010; bequeathed to MIA)
- Curator Approved
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