Palace or Villa Interior, Colonnaded Hall

Palace or Villa Interior, Colonnaded Hall by Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")

Medium

Pen and brown ink, gray wash over black chalk

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968

Accession Number

68.664.2

Tags

StairsColumnsInteriors

About the Artist

Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 17001800

Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...

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