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"title": "A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man",
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
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"title": "Italian Drawings, 1330-1780",
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"title": "Mozart and the Age of Reason",
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"title": "Italian and French Drawings",
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"title": "Aspects of Drawing",
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"title": "Drawings",
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"title": "Imagination in the Age of Reason",
"description": "Imagination in the Age of Reason. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).",
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"description": "Exhibition of eighteenth-century Italian Painting held in Venice, 1929 (no. 47).",
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"description": "Oberlin, Ohio, Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, \"Twenty-Four Eighteenth Century French and Italian Drawings,\" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 8 (Jan. 4-31, 1951).",
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"description": "(Italico Brass [1870-1943], Venice, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 1938.)",
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"did_you_know": "The flower the woman in this drawing plucks from the bouquet\u2014a \u201cpink\u201d\u2014was associated with marriage and love in 18th-century Europe.",
"description": "Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was celebrated for his finished drawings of saints, portraits, and teste di carattere (character heads). Cleveland\u2019s sheet belongs to the latter genre, which describes portraits embellished with props to suggest a character type or types. Here, Piazzetta united three independent studies of individuals into a single scene, in which a young woman appears to purchase a pink\u2014a type of flower related to the carnation\u2014from a boy with a second young woman looking on.The image bristles with tantalizing narrative potential, but it is left to the viewer to interpret the scene as they wish. Drawings of this size and quality of finish were displayed on walls like paintings, rather than stored in portfolios, with the unfortunate consequence that the Venetian blue paper often faded to a grayish-tan as here. However, the virtuosity of Piazzetta\u2019s technique endures on this sheet. His method of modeling\u2014wetting and rubbing his black crayon rather than hatching\u2014produces the density of tone and velvety shadow. Textural details are supplied by white chalk, evoking the silky weave of the boy\u2019s shirt and the hard substance of the figures\u2019 fingernails. Piazzetta's drawings were in high demand among affluent foreign visitors and helped to supplement his income.",
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"citation": "Shaw, James Byam. \u201cVenice: Piazzetta at S. Giorgio Maggiore.\u201d The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 969 (December 1983).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 786 n.6",
"url": null
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"citation": "Rava, Aldo. G.B. Piazzetta. Firenze: Fratelli Alinari, 1921.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 71",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fiocco, Giuseppe. \u201cLa Peinture \u00e0 l\u2019Exposition du XVIIIe Si\u00e8cle \u00e0 Venise.\u201d La Renaissance 12, no. 12 (December 1929).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 565",
"url": null
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"citation": "Ojetti, Ugo et al. Il Settecento Italiano. Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1932.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 244",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo. L\u2019Arte di Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Bologna: Giuseppe Maylender Editore, 1934.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 58, 100, fig. 74",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\u201cCleveland: A Museum\u2019s New Acquisitions.\u201d The Art News 38, no. 40 (1940): 13-14.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Two Drawings by Piazzetta.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 27, no. 7 (1940): 108-109.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 108-109",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Smith College, and Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Italian Drawing, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, MA: Press-work by A. Wilson, 1941.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 51",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Goering, Max. \u201cGiovanni Battista Piazzetta als Zeichner.\u201d Pantheon 14, no. 11 (November 1941): 259-263.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 261-263",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Mongan, Agnes. \u201cItalian Drawings 1330-1780: an Exhibition at the Smith College Museum of Art.\u201d The Art Bulletin 24, no. 1 (March 1942): 92-94.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 93",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Giovanni Battista PIazzetta, con cinquantasei tavole. Rome: Tumminelli, 1943.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 22, pl. 53",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York: H. Bittner and Company, 1947.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 29, no. 11",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin Publishers, 1947.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: 172-73, no. 86",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fogg Museum of Art. Venice in the Eighteenth Century (May 7- June 10, 1948). Cambridge: Harvard University, 1948.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 27",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cL\u2019arte Italiana nel Museo di Cleveland.\u201d Le Vie del Mondo 12, no. 9 (September 1950): 897-908.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 908",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Detroit Institute of Arts, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, and E.P. Richardson. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, fig. 53",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \u201cUna Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit.\u201d Arte Veneta: Rivista Trimestrale di Storia dell\u2019Arte 25 (1953).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 52.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 572",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n107"
},
{
"citation": "Milliken, William M. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 46",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 143",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n167"
},
{
"citation": "Alsop, Joseph. \u201cTreasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d Art in America 24, no.3 (May-June 1966).",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 23, 28.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 143",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n167"
},
{
"citation": "Precerutti-Garberi, Mercedes. Giambattista Piazzetta e l\u2019accademia: disegni. Milan: Castello Sforzesco, 1971.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 15, 23 under nos. 1 and 2, 28 under no. 5",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bean, Jacob and Felice Stampfle. Drawings from New York Collections III: The Eighteenth Century in Italy. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 34 under no. 40",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 142",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n162"
},
{
"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo and Adriano Mariuz. L\u2019opera completa del Piazzetta. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 131, 133, no.d12",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Knox, George, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10, 30, 37, 126, 134, cat. no. 51, Reproduced: p. 134",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo et al. Giambattista Piazzetta: Il suo tempo, la sua scuola. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 134, under no. 50",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Alessandro Bettagno, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. G.B. Piazzetta: disegni, incisioni, libri, manoscritti. Vicenza: Pozza, 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 25, under no. 16, p. 30, under no. 37",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Uwe Westfehling. Meisterzeichnungen von Leonardo bis zu Rodin. Cologne: Museen der Stadt Ko\u0308ln, 1986.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 110",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1991. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 106",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, John Russell, and Evan H. Turner. Masterpieces from East and West. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 126.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no 65, p. 145, 147, 474",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Alpers, Svetlana. \u201cPost-Genius Venice.\u201d Art in America, March 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "National Gallery of Art. 1995 Annual Report. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 19",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Romanelli, Giandomenico and Filippo Pedrocco. Lorenzo Tiepolo e il suo tempo. (Milan: Electa, 1997).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 33",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21, p. 4, pp. 62-62, p. 286",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Annual Report 2000, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 82.",
"url": null
}
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