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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.113
People
Giuseppe Rolli, Italian (Bologna 1645 - 1727 Bologna)
Antonio Rolli, Italian (Bologna 1643 - 1696 Bologna)
Title
Wisdom and Glory (Study for the Ceiling Decoration of the Palazzo Marescotti, Bologna)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1677
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173540

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.6 x 19.9 cm (8 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, brown ink: alboresi
  • watermark: coat-of-arms with six balls/circles

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carlo(?) Bianconi. See "Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings...," 1975, pp. 11-12 for discussion of Bisi-Gibelli album.
Luigi Bisi, Milan, presented album of drawings to Giuseppe Gibelli,, 1884.
Giuseppe (d. 1963) Gibelli, acquired from Luigi Bisi, 1884, sold by Gibelli's heirs to Richard Wunder, 1963.
Richard Wunder, acquired from heirs of Giuseppe Gibelli, 1963, gift to HUAM, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.113
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ebria Feinblatt, "Some Drawings for a Fresco by the Brothers Rolli", The Burlington Magazine (December 1964), vol. 106, no. 741, pp. 569-571, p. 570, and fig. 25
  • Richard P. Wunder, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, exh. cat., Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT, 1975), cat. no. 43, repr.
  • The Dr. Richard P. Wunder Collection of Fine Architectural Ornament and Other Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, July 7, 1976), no. 150, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury, 01/05/1975 - 02/26/1975

Verification Level

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