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Two Drawings of Ships (verso)
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About this work
Once attributed to the Italian painter Giotto (about 1267-1337), this drawing is the oldest sheet in the Cleveland museum's collection. We now know it to be a copy by Parri Spinelli after a mosaic Giotto designed for the portico of the church of Old St. Peter's in Rome.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTwo Drawings of Ships (verso), 1410s. Parri Spinelli (Italian, 1387–c. 1453). Pen and brown ink (iron gall); sheet: 27.2 x 37.2 cm (10 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.); secondary support: 32.8 x 42.8 cm (12 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1961.38.b
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