Elevation of Giulio Romano's House (recto); the Ruins from the Caelius Aqueduct and Temple of Claudius in Rome (verso)
ca. 1557
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint
Dimensions
10 15/16 x 14 5/8 in. (27.8 x 37.1 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, 1949
Accession Number
49.56.15
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Naldini · 1535–1591
Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537–1591) was a prominent Italian painter of the late Mannerist period, active primarily in Florence and Rome. Born in Florence, he began his artistic training at the remarkably young age of twelve, entering the studio of Jacopo Pontormo in 1549 for an eight-year apprenticeship that lasted until 1557. Pontormo's influence profoundly shaped Naldini's early style, instill...