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Façade and Ruins

Mauro Antonio Tesi

1730–66

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Tags

ColumnsRuins

Dimensions

11 1/4 x 8 3/8in. (28.6 x 21.3cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Mauro Antonio Tesi

1730–1766

Born 15 January 1730; died 18 July 1766. Student of the heraldic painter Morreltini. Painter of architecture and interior views. Comment on works: views, architecture

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