1932.169: Design for the Altar Wall of a Carafa Chapel

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.169

People

Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian (San Gimignano, Italy 1533 - c. 1609 Rome, Italy)
? Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian (San Gimignano, Italy 1533 - c. 1609 Rome, Italy)

Title

Design for the Altar Wall of a Carafa Chapel

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298640

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash, with preparatory incising by stylus, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

25.8 x 19.9 cm (10 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: center top, black ink: L. 1534 (Sir John St. Aubyn, 1758-1839)
• inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: Coll. Sir John St. Aubyn
• inscription: verso, center right: Illegible
• watermark: Watermark visible during examination by Craigen Bowen. Appears to be a star in a circle. Beta required.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir John St. Aubyn, Devonport and London (Lugt 1534). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.169

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 81, pp. 60-61; vol. 2, repr. fig. 69 as Dosio (?)
• Werner Gramberg, Die Düsseldorfer Skizzenbucher des Guglielmo della Porta, Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1964), vol. 1, pp. 60-61, repr. fig. 7
• Carolyn Valone, "Paul IV, Guglielmo della Porta and the Rebuilding of San Silvestro al Quirinale", Master Drawings (1977), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 243-255, pp. 252-253, repr. pl. 7
• John A. Gere and Philip Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Artists Working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, British Museum Publications Limited (London, England, 1983), p. 71
• Richard Raymond Alasko and Lawrence S. Lowic, Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome, exh. cat., Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, IN, 1983), cat. no. 16, pp. 65-66, repr. p. 40
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con tre stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, 09/11/1983 - 10/23/1983
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/09/2015 - 03/02/2016

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