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Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Classical Entablatures, Striding Horse Seen from Behind

Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Classical Entablatures, Striding Horse Seen from Behind

Benozzo Gozzoli (in circa 1450-1460)

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Title Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Classical Entablatures, Striding Horse Seen from Behind
Material and technique Metalpoint, pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash
Object type
Drawing (recto) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 229 mm
Width 160 mm
Artists Workshop of: Benozzo Gozzoli
Accession number I 562 15 recto (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1450-1460
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan, Codex Triv. 2145; probably acquired by Don Carlo Trivulzio (1715-1789); by inheritance to Luigi Alberico Principe di Musocco Trivulzio (1873-1938); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in the years 1925-1930; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Internal exhibitions De Collectie Twee - wissel II, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
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Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

The page (folio 15 recto) seen from the right edge in raking light

This is a folio from a hypothetical lost drawing book, a remnant of which is now part of an eighteenth-century album called the Gozzoli Album, held in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. For a general description, see here.

This page was originally folio 4 verso in the hypothetical lost volume (now a recto in the album).

Architectural details from Roman monuments were often recorded in late-medieval model books and also during the Renaissance. Early prototypes for our drawings are found in a drawing by Pisanello, now in Paris.[1] For the architectural drawings on both sides of this sheet (see also folio 15 verso) the draughtsman used a ruler and a sharp stylus, which can be observed from the indented straight lines, visible in raking light (fig.).

The horse in rear view is related to the horses in various poses in Gozzoli’s fresco cycle in the Cappella dei Magi in Palazzo Medici, Florence, which also go back to prototypes by Pisanello.

A very similar drawing of classical entablatures, also listed as a work from the Gozzoli workshop and probably originating from the same lost volume, is now in Vienna.[2]

Footnotes

[1] Musée du Louvre, inv. 2271.

[2] Albertina, inv. 25450v.

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Benozzo Gozzoli

Florence circa 1420 - Pistoia 1497

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