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This is a significant early example of pure landscape drawing in Europe, as it is dedicated completely to the depiction of nature for its own sake, without suggestion of a biblical or historical narrative. The rapidity and regularity of strokes used for the evergreen and deciduous trees and the sweeping lines in the foreground suggest that the landscape in <em>Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill </em>was made directly from nature. The sheet comes from an album of 41 landscape studies by Fra Bartolommeo assembled by an eighteenth-century collector and disbound for sale in the mid-20th century. A member of the Dominican Order, Fra Bartolomeo likely produced these drawings during his travels in and around Florence, often to Dominican establishments.
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134951
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Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill
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134951
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drawing
title
Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill
description
This is a significant early example of pure landscape drawing in Europe, as it is dedicated completely to the depiction of nature for its own sake, without suggestion of a biblical or historical narrative. The rapidity and regularity of strokes used for the evergreen and deciduous trees and the sweeping lines in the foreground suggest that the landscape in <em>Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill </em>was made directly from nature. The sheet comes from an album of 41 landscape studies by Fra Bartolommeo assembled by an eighteenth-century collector and disbound for sale in the mid-20th century. A member of the Dominican Order, Fra Bartolomeo likely produced these drawings during his travels in and around Florence, often to Dominican establishments.
date
c. 1508
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60760025
creators
11603
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 22.3 x 29.4 cm (8 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.5 x 41.2 cm (10 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
cul
Italy, Florence, 15th century
accession
1957.498
Source extras
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pen and brown ink
tombstone
Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill, c. 1508. Fra Bartolommeo (Italian, 1472–1517). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 22.3 x 29.4 cm (8 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.); secondary support: 27.5 x 41.2 cm (10 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, Purchase, Dudley P. Allen Fund, Delia E. Holden Fund and L. E. Holden Fund, 1957.498
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(2) laid paper (F.M.N.Gabburri's mount)
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
a bird in ink lower left recto
didYouKnow
The artist who made this drawing, Fra (brother) Bartolommeo, left his successful Florentine artistic studio in 1500 and renounced painting in order to join the Dominican Order.
citations
citation
Joachim, Harold, and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.<em> Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago</em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 24
citation
Jeudwine, W. R. "Fine Works on the Market: A Volume of Landscape Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo." <em>Apollo </em>66 (November 1957): 132-135.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 132-135; reproduced: p. 132, n. I
citation
Sotheby & Co. "Catalogue of Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra Bartolommeo." (November 1957).
page_number
Mentioned: p. vii, under n. 3
citation
Frankfurther, Alfred M. "Cleveland: Model Museum for a Modern Cosmopolis." <em>Art News </em>57 (March 1958): 24-37.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 30, n. 18
citation
Fleming, John. "Mr. Kent, Art Dealer, and the Fra Bartolommeo Drawings." <em>Connoisseur </em>141 (May 1958): 227.
page_number
P. 227
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"International Salesroom." <em>Connoisseur </em>141 (February 1958): 44.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 44, n. 17
citation
Columbia University, and M. Knoedler & Co. <em>Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries</em>. New York: The Trustees of Columbia University, 1959.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 17-18, under n. 13; reproduced: plate IX
citation
Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. "A Landscape Drawing by Fra Bartolommeo." <em>Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art</em> (1959): 1-12.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 11, note 30
citation
Berenson, Bernard. <em>I disegni dei pittori fiorentini</em>, vol. 2. Milan: Electa editrice, 1961.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 72
citation
Richards, Louise S. "Three Early Italian Drawings." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 49, no. 7 (September 1962): 167-174.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 172; reproduced: p. 173, n. 5
citation
Jaffé, Michael. "Italian Drawings from Dutch Collections." <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 104, no. 711 (June 1962): 230-238.
page_number
Pp. 232-233
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. “Two Italian Drawings.” August 20, 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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Harkonen, Helen Bernice. <em>Farms and Farmers in Art</em>. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, 1965.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 26
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 86
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Selected Works: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page_number
Reproduced: n. 139
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 86
citation
Baer, Curtis O. <em>Landscape Drawings</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1969.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 15 and 50, under n. 8; reproduced: p. 51, n. 8
citation
Pillsbury, Edmund P.<em> Florence and the Arts Five Centuries of Patronage. </em>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1971.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: n. 57
citation
Von Holst, Christian. "Florentiner Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Zeit von 1480 bis 1580. Kleine Beobachtungen und Ergänzungen." <em>Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz </em>15 (May 1971): 1-64.
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Mentioned: p. 18, note 34
citation
Neilson, Nancy Ward. <em>Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections.</em> St. Louis: The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1972.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: n. 2
citation
Avery, Catherine B, ed. <em>The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia</em>. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 98; reproduced: p.97
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 99
citation
Johnson, Mark M. <em>Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. </em>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 39-40; reproduced: p. 41, n. 42
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. T<em>he Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 13, 16, 21, 25, 27-28; reproduced: p. 27, n. 3
citation
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, eds. <em>European Drawings, 1375-1825</em>. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 39
citation
Olszewski, Edward J. "Italian Drawings in Cleveland." <em>The Connoisseur</em> 206 (April 1981): 284-288.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 285 and 287; reproduced: p. 285, n. 6
citation
Shaw, James Byam. <em>The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection</em>, vol. 1. Paris: Institut Néerlandais, 1983.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 23
citation
Gordley, Barbara Pike. "The Drawings of Beccafumi." Ph.D. diss., Princeton University 1988.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 38-39 and note 77 and pp. 365-366, under n. 32
citation
Fischer, Chris.<em> Fra Bartolommeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance: a Selection from the Rotterdam Albums and Landscape Drawings from Various Collections.</em> Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, 1990.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 375-377 and 393-394, under n. 111; reproduced: p. 392
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 75
citation
Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine. "Book Reviews." <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 133 (July 1991): 453-454.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 453-454
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Masterpieces from East and West</em>. New York: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10
citation
Olszewski, Edward J. "Central and Landscapes in Italian Renaissance Paintings." <em>Source: Notes in the History of Art</em> 17, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 29-35.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 29; reproduced: p. 31, n. 2
citation
Torriti, Piero, ed. <em>Beccafumi</em>. Milan: Electa, 1998.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 240, under n. D1
citation
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications: New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 8, 26-27, and 283; reproduced: p. 27
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., ed. <em>A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepos Publishers, 2008.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 38-39, under n. 33; reproduced: p. 38, n. 33
citation
Alsteens, Stijn, Carmen C. Bambach, George Goldner, Colta Ives, Perrin Stein, and Nathalie Stresser, eds. <em>Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 9; reproduced: p. 8, n. 5
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 152-154
citation
Ackerman, James S. <em>Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture.</em> New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 12, pl. 10
citation
Elen, Albert J., and Chris Fischer.<em> Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance. </em>Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2016.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 119; reproduced: p. 121, 216, no. 6.10
creditline
Gift of the Hanna Fund, Purchase, Dudley P. Allen Fund, Delia E. Holden Fund and L. E. Holden Fund
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