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Design for a Candelabrum, Allegorical Figure of Abundance, Ornamental Relief Design

c. 1490s

Bernardo Parentino

(Italian)

Italy, late 15th century

Pen and brown ink

Support: Vellum, laid down on blue laid paper

Sheet: 25.4 x 17.1 cm (10 x 6 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 31.5 x 20.5 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1956.41

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower center, in brown ink: . D . mi[o?] gaetano Laordillo. ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in brown ink: -[1?]9- ; center left, in graphite: 65

Provenance
Antonio II Badile, Verona (according to cataloguing sheet). Moscardo, Verona (according to departmental card); Marquis of Calceolari, Verona (according to letter from F. Matthiesen). [Francis Matthiesen, London]
Citations
Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 97-98, fig. 3.33
Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings, 56, no.4(Winter 2018): 443-462. Mentioned: p. 450, Reproduced: p. 451, fig. 16
Exhibition history

CMA, Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints (Aug. 7-Oct. 28, 1990).

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs (Nov. 2, 1982-Mar. 20, 1983).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 116, illus., pp. 19, 119.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).

Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College Art Gallery, Italian Renaissance Works of Art (May 3-June 9, 1968).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 9, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968).

CMA, Old Master Prints and Drawings (July 29, 1966-Apr. 1, 1967).

CMA, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection (May 6-Sep. 9, 1965).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).

CMA, Art and Humanism in the Renaissance (Jan. 22-Feb. 25, 1962).

CMA, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 15th-17th Century (installed May 18, 1960).

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

CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-?).

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

Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-April 1, 1967).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

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

Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

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