Design for a Festival Monument: Base Holds a Small Orchestra; Triumphal Arch Surmounted by a Cartouche-Decorated Pyramid with Figure of Fame, below, a Royal Crown.
Medium
Pen, brown ink with gray wash
Dimensions
22-1/4 x 16-5/8 in. (56.5 x 42.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972
Accession Number
1972.713.67
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 1700–1800
Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...