Italianate Buildings on a Hill at Tivoli
17th century
Medium
Red chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, heightened with white
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 5/8 in. (30.9 x 21.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2004
Accession Number
2004.456
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, *Italianate Buildings on a at Tivoli* by Adriaen Honich the allure of 17th-century through a masterful landscape drawing. Created during the Dutch Golden Age, when Northern European artists flocked to Italy for inspiration, this work depicts the picturesque hills of Tivoli—famed for its ancient ruins, cascading waterfalls, and Renaissance villas like Hadrian's Villa. Honich's scene evokes the idealized "Italian" style, blending rugged terrain with elegant architecture perched dramatically atop elevations, a motif that ...