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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.157.B
People
Giorgio Vasari, Italian (Arezzo, Italy 1511 - 1574 Florence, Italy)
Title
Design for a Series of Frescoes to Decorate the Palazzo Vecchio
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th-16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/18747

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink with brown wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.9 x 10.9 cm (8 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1932.157.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 197, pp. 104-105; vol. 2, repr. fig. 105
  • University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, The Age of Vasari, exh. cat. (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1970), p. 86 as D42
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 18, n.p., pl. 18, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 22, pp. 56-57, repr. color
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 37, n.p., and p. 37, repr. color
  • Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., University of Washington Press and Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 56, pp. 198-199, repr.
  • Maia W. Gahtan and Philip Jacks, Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court; An Exhibition to Accompany the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1994), cat. no. 38, p. 35
  • Robert Williams, "The Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio and the Precedence Controversy between Florence and Ferrara", Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court, ed. Philip Jacks, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England and New York, NY, 1998), pp. 163-180, pp. 172 and 174, repr. fig. 77
  • Rick Scorza, "Vasari's Painting of the Terzo Cerchio [ital.] in the Palazzo Vecchio: A Reconstruction of Medieval Florence", Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court, ed. Philip Jacks, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England and New York, NY, 1998), pp. 182-205, p. 190, repr.
  • 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")
  • Florian Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, 2015), cat. no. 286.b, pp. 448-49, repr. p. 449

Exhibition History

  • Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 02/14/1954 - 03/28/1954
  • The Age of Vasari, Notre Dame Art Gallery, 02/22/1970 - 03/31/1970; University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton, 04/12/1970 - 05/10/1970
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991 - 12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992 - 03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992 - 05/24/1992
  • Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court: An Exhibition to Accompnay the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 04/14/1994 - 05/15/1994
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 02/26/2024

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