View of the Entrance to the Piazza del Duomo from the Piazza San Giovanni in Siena
1816–73
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (or graphite)
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 3/8 in. (25.5 × 18.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.13b
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Silvestri · 1796–1873
Giovanni Battista Silvestri (1796–1873) was a prominent Florentine architect and painter whose career bridged neoclassicism and emerging historicist styles in 19th-century Italy. Born in Florence, he received his formative training at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he excelled, winning numerous prizes and securing a pensionato scholarship to Rome in 1820. There, he honed his skills ...