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Drawing, Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy
This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Wouter Crabeth and patron: Medici Family. It is dated ca. 1570-80 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper, squared in black chalk. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Dispensing with the religious imagery of his other stained-glass designs, Crabeth employed the iconography of secular power in this drawing for a window in the Medici’s Laurentian Library. Surrounding their family crest, symbolic figures connote Medici might. Like Augustus, Cosimo de’ Medici claimed Capricorn as his ascendant sign, and a fish-tailed goat invokes the Roman emperor’s glory. Cosimo also adopted an Augustan motto, Festina lente (prosper slowly), illustrated here by a turtle whose shell is borne by a sail. Arranged within a sketched grid, these playful creatures form a carefully organized window composition.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- Drawing, Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
- pen and brown ink on paper, lined.
- Museum purchase through gift of Walter Leo Hildburgh.
- 1956-41-1
- Stencil, Turtles
- mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu),.
- Gift of Helen Snyder.
- 1976-103-159
- Drawing, Design for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria
- pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-1741
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- Drawing, Sculptural Composition
- pen and ink, brush and wash on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- 1901-39-969
- Mount
- 1904-21-32
- Drawing, Coat of arms of Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Altieri, 1789–1793
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-1826
Its dimensions are
Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) H x W: 55.4 × 18.7 cm (21 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy; Attributed to Wouter Crabeth I (Dutch, active 1559 – d. 1589); Patron: Medici Family; Italy; brush and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper, squared in black chalk; Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) H x W: 55.4 × 18.7 cm (21 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7321
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.
