Colonnade Portico
Italian School
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper
Dimensions
36.3 × 33.4 cm (14 5/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84929
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Italian School · 1800–1899
The Italian School of the nineteenth century encompasses the diverse artistic output of painters, sculptors, and architects working across the Italian peninsula from 1800 to 1899, a period marked by profound political change including foreign occupations, the Risorgimento movement, and national unification in 1861. This era saw Italian art transition from Enlightenment ideals through Neoclassicism...