Design for the Top of an Arch, Decorated with a Cherub (recto); Design for the Frame of a Frieze (verso)
1652–1725
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
sheet: 2 1/2 x 3 11/16 in. (6.4 x 9.3 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
52.570.274
Tags
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 ...