Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, C. 1535
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, C. 1535
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Painting - Photograph
Description
Studies of a Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, Interlacing Motif, and Greek Frets, c. 1530s. Created by Giorgio di Giovanni ("Giorgio da Siena"). Pen and two colors of brown ink, brush and watercolor over leadpoint or black chalk. The range of delicately drawn animal, insect, and ornamental motifs indicates that this sheet was once part of a sketch book or model book. The imagery relates generally to a fresco cycle at the Villa Belcaro, near Siena, which the artist executed between 1530 and 1540; he became the leading practitioner of the genre of naturalistic Antique-style ornamental painting in Siena. Particularly charming here is the lively pen line used to render the two cats and the small, strutting barnyard fowl, while the insect (Acherontia atropos, otherwise known as a death's-head moth) is drawn and painted with a nearly scientific precision, even though it was intended as a motif in a decorative context.
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