2001.113: Wisdom and Glory (Study for the Ceiling Decoration of the Palazzo Marescotti, Bologna)

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

Permissions

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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

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