Elevation "della nuova Galleria"
Giovanni Battista Silvestri
1796–1873
Medium
Pen and ink, wash. On paper of O. & I. Honig
Dimensions
sheet: 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (40 x 49.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.14.4
Tags
Architecture
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Silvestri · 1796–1873
Giovanni Battista Silvestri (1796–1873) was a prominent Florentine architect and painter whose career bridged neoclassicism and emerging historicist styles in 19th-century Italy. Born in Florence, he received his formative training at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he excelled, winning numerous prizes and securing a pensionato scholarship to Rome in 1820. There, he honed his skills ...