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Navicella (recto) Two Drawings of Ships (verso)

c. 1410s
(Italian, 1387–c. 1453)
Italy, Arezzo, 15th century
pen and brown ink (iron gall)
Sheet: 27.2 x 37.2 cm (10 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 32.8 x 42.8 cm (12 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.38
Location: not on view
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Once attributed to the Italian painter Giotto (about 1267-1337), this drawing is the oldest sheet in the Cleveland museum's collection. We now know it to be a copy by Parri Spinelli after a mosaic Giotto designed for the portico of the church of Old St. Peter's in Rome.
Navicella (recto) Two Drawings of Ships (verso)

Navicella (recto) Two Drawings of Ships (verso)

c. 1410s

Parri Spinelli

(Italian, 1387–c. 1453)
Italy, Arezzo, 15th century

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