Attributed to Giovanni Nanni, called Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564)

The Ceiling of a Room in the Domus Aurea, Rome, after the antique (recto); The Ground Plan of a Church (verso)

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Attributed to Giovanni Nanni, called Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564)
The Ceiling of a Room in the Domus Aurea, Rome, after the antique (recto); The Ground Plan of a Church (verso)
inscribed 'A champana - alla grotta nord.' (recto); extensively inscribed including '144. di Giovanni da Udine' (verso)
pen and two shades of brown ink, over stylus indications, watermark device
13 x 9 in. (343 x 235 mm.)

Provenance

F. Asta (L.116a).
Max Hevesi, Vienna.

Lot Essay

A drawing by Giovanni da Udine, copying a stucco decoration of the Colosseum, Rome, formerly in the collection of Pierre Crozat and known through a print (photograph in the Witt Library) is close in style and handling to the present drawing. Another sheet in the Louvre related to the Colosseum was attributed to Giovanni da Udine by N. Dacos, La dcouverte de la Domus aurea et la formation des grotesques la Renaissance, Leiden, 1969, fig. 65. Further similar drawings are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. 727), and the Uffizi (photo in the Witt Library).
This drawing, as well as lot 97 and 237, were owned by Max Hevesi, the founder of Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox.