Palazzo Pollini, Siena, Attributed to Peruzzi
Medium
graphite
Dimensions
overall: 33.2 x 48 cm (13 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John Russell Pope
Accession Number
1939.2.4
About the Artist
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope (1874–1937) was a preeminent American architect whose monumental neoclassical designs defined much of Washington's monumental core. Born on April 24, 1874, in New York City to portrait painters John Pope and Mary Avery Loomis Pope, he grew up immersed in an artistic milieu that foreshadowed his own career. After initial studies at the City College of New York in 1888 and graduati...