Architectural Details: Base, Capital, and Mask

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1515, or later

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Italian, c. 1460-c. 1520

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Title: Architectural Details: Base, Capital, and Mask
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1510–1525
Medium: Engraving in dark brown on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto upper center, in plate: “DE LA TORRE DE MILICIA”
Dimensions: 14.1 × 10.8 cm (5 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Reference Number: 1937.74
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Providence, RI: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, “Ornament and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints, and Books,” March 8–April 6, 1980, cat. 47 (ill.).
Charlottesville, University of Virginia Art Museum, “Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice”, August 26-December 18, 2011, cat. 3 (ill.).

Hind V.52.57

Passavant V.112.60

Bartsch, illustrated 2511.056

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