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Source Description
Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of at least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating at upper left the dried cornflower (<em>concia fior da liso</em>) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveals his knowledge of Florentine and Venetian models.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
160061
label
Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
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obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
160061
contentType
drawing
title
Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
description
Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of at least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating at upper left the dried cornflower (<em>concia fior da liso</em>) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveals his knowledge of Florentine and Venetian models.
date
1567
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79980660
creators
6519
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 14.4 x 21.2 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 22.4 x 28.7 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1997.37.a
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink (iron gall)
tombstone
Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto), 1567. Gherardo Cibo (Italian, 1512–1600). Pen and brown ink (iron gall); sheet: 14.4 x 21.2 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.); secondary support: 22.4 x 28.7 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1997.37.a
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of cream-yellow wove paper
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
by artist, upper left and upper center, in brown ink: concia d[el]. Mga[a superscript] fior d[i]. lisa. d[i]e. q[uinta]. .7. d[ie]. 9.re 1567: ; lower right, in brown ink: 34
inscription_translation
extended inscription, "concia del maggiore fior di lisa. die quinta 7(?) die novembre 1567", i.e. "curing [drying] of the greater cornflower on the fifth day 7(?) of November 1567."
citations
citation
P & D. Colnaghi, London. <em>Exhibition of Old Master Drawings</em>. London: June-July 1971.
page_number
no. 6, pl. III [as Messer Ulisse Severino d Cingoli].
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.
page_number
p. 154, no. 129.
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 08:18:25.518000
sourceId
160061
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Drawings
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DR - Italian
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pen and brown ink (iron gall)
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male
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image_url
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1
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0
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photo
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