Design for a Stage Set: A Classical Courtyard and Colonnade with a Statue of Minerva
1780–90
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with gray, blue, green and pink watercolor, over graphite or lead, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
17-3/8 x 12-3/8 in. (44.2 x 31.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.553
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About the Artist
Leonardo Marini · 1730–1797
Leonardo Marini (1730–1797) was an Italian sculptor who worked principally in Rome during the later decades of the eighteenth century, contributing to the rich culture of sculptural production that flourished in the city during the age of Neoclassicism. Born in 1730, Marini trained within the Roman tradition of marble carving and decorative sculpture, absorbing the technical standards demanded by ...