St. Rocco Waterfall and Bridge at Tivoli (Cascata e Ponte di St. Rocco a Tivoli)
Medium
etching in brown ink
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Susan Schulman in memory of Fred Schmidt
Accession Number
2002.105
Tags
About this artwork
Throughout the latter part of the 18th century, successive generations of German artists visited Italy in order to study the acknowledged masterpieces of antiquity and the Renaissance. After an unsatisfactory initial course of study of printmaking in Basel, Dies set out on foot to Rome where he remained for twenty years working as a painter and etcher. This etching of an artist sketching a picturesque view at Tivoli came from a series of Italian views. Although at the time Dies’s work was critic...