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Design for Decorative Hinges (recto) Border Lines (verso)

mid 1500s

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Luzio Romano

(Italian, active 1528–75)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink (lower left, upper right)

Sheet: 29.8 x 17.5 cm (11 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.586

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

ower left, in brown ink: Pierino ; RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in brown ink: 128 ; upper right, in black chalk(?): 32 ; center right, in graphite: 28 [underlined, sideways] ; lower right, in graphite: cx[l?] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower right, in graphite: A 309[7?] . ; FRAGMENT OF OLD MAT (now removed), across top, in graphite: Pierino del Vaga (circle of) Door Hinges ; across center, in graphite: Enlarged duplicate of / drawing at Windsor Castle / A. N. [underlined] ; lower right, in graphite: 159

Citations

Vaiani, Elena, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, and Helen Whitehouse. Egyptian and Roman Antiquities and Renaissance Decorative Arts. London : Royal Collection Trust in association with Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 762, comp. fig. 405

Exhibition history

Pepper Pike, Ohio, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College; Lakewood, Ohio, Kenneth C. Beck Center, Drawing: A Line of Departure (Oct. 12-Dec. 15, 1985; Sep. 7-Nov. 3, 1986).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 65, illus., p. 55 (mentioned p. 90?).

Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, The Lively Arts of the Renaissance (Jan. 15-Feb. 21, 1960), no. 10.

CMA, Aspects of Drawing (Jan. 10-Apr. 2, 1961).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600 (Nov. 17, 1958-Jan. 6, 1959), no. 15.

CMA, part of an educ. dept. exh. (removed June 30, 1958).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 10-Apr. 28, 1937).

CMA, "An Exhibition of Drawings," cma Bulletin 11 (1924), p. 141.

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

An Approach to Musem Objects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 3-June 30, 1958).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).