Design for a Sculpture consisting of a Satyr and Satyress holding a Vase
1652–1725
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of black chalk or graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 7 7/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.9 x 11.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.277
Tags
About this artwork
This drawings|ornament & architecture by italian artist Giovanni Battista Foggini exemplifies the artistic achievements of 1652–1725. Italian artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods set standards for technical excellence and artistic innovation that influenced Western art for centuries. Drawing served as a vital practice for artists, functioning as both preparatory studies and finished works that reveal creative processes and technical skills. Executed in pen and brown ink, brush and gray...
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Foggini · 1652–1725
**Giovanni Battista Foggini** (1652–1725) was a leading Italian sculptor and architect of the late Baroque period, born in Florence within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He began his career under the patronage of the Medici family, who sponsored his artistic training. In 1673, at the age of 21, Cosimo III de' Medici sent the young Foggini to Rome to join the newly founded Accademia Fiorentina, where ...