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Design after a Fountain in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati.
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Design after a Fountain in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati.

1590–1600

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash and pale blue-gray watercolor accents (on the depictions of water), over leadpoint or black chalk, with ruling and compass construction

Dimensions

sheet: 13 5/8 x 26 3/4 in. (34.6 x 68 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Guerra

1540–1618

Brother of Gaspare (1560-1622) and Giovanni Battista (dates unknown), architects and painters. From 1575, member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Giovanni worked with Domenico Fontana during the pontificate of Sixtus V and participated in the competition for the moving of the Vatican obelisk. Italian artist.