id: 136899 accession number: 1961.38.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.38.a updated: 2024-07-24 11:12:25.359000 Navicella (recto), c. 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.a title: Navicella (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1410s creation date earliest: 1410 creation date latest: 1419 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Arezzo, 15th century technique: pen and brown ink (iron gall) department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Parri Spinelli (Italian, 1387–c. 1453) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper, tipped on to cream-yellow wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00 The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Michelangelo: Mind of the Master opening date: 2019-09-22T04:00:00 Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Italian Drawings. Burlington House. London, 1930.', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Collection of Marquess of Northampton from Castle Ashby. Christie's, London 1959.", 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Giorgio Vasari, 1511-74, Florence, Italy (according to Richardson, Ottley, Kurz, Virch, Collobi) date: ?-1574? footnotes: citations: Johnathan Richardson, Sr., London (Lugt 2183, lower right, in black ink) date: ?-1747 footnotes: citations: His sale, 28 January 1747, no. 68 date: 1747 footnotes: citations: Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (Lugt 2364, lower right, in black ink) date: ?-1798 footnotes: citations: Probably his sale, 15 March 1798, no. 967. date: 1798 footnotes: citations: C. M. Metz, Rome and London date: ?-? footnotes: citations: W. Young Ottley, London date: ?-1814 footnotes: citations: His sale, 11 June 1814, no. 622 date: 1814 footnotes: citations: possibly Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445, incomplete blind stamp, lower left) date: ?1814-?1830 footnotes: citations: Samuel Woodburn, London date: ?-1860 footnotes: citations: His sale, Christie, Manson, Wood, London, 12 June 1860, no. 1230 (as Giotto) date: 1860 footnotes: citations: Gase, Paris date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Marquess of Northampton, Castle Ashby date: ?-1959 footnotes: citations: His sale, Christie, Manson, Woods, London, 1 May 1959 date: 1959 footnotes: citations: With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London date: 1961 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Richardson, Jonathan, and Jonathan Richardson. An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, &C. With Remarks. London: Printed for J. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1722. page number: 293 (as Giotto) url: Richardson, Jonathan. Traite de la peinture et de la sculpture. À Amsterdam: Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1728. page number: III/2, 538 (as from Vasari's Libro by Giotto) url: Metz, C. M. Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings from the Restoration of the Arts in Italy to the Present Time: Together with a Chronological Account of the Artists and Structures of Their Work in English and French. London: The author, 1798. page number: 5, ill (in reverse as etching, as Giotto) url: Ottley, William Young. The Italian School of Design: Being a Series of Fac-Similes of Original Drawings, by the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors of Italy; with Biographical Notices of the Artists, and Observations on Their Works. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. page number: repr. p. 9 (as Giotto) url: Venturi, Lionello, "La 'Navicella' di Giotto," L'Arte XXV (1922): pp. 49-69. page number: fig.4 (as circle of Lorenzo Monaco) url: Popham, A. E. Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House. London: The Oxford University Press, and the Executive Committee of the exhibition, 1931. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 1 url: Kurz, Otto, "Giorgio Vasari's 'Libro de' Disegni," Old Master Drawings A Quarterly Magazine for Students and Collectors 45 (June, 1937): pp. 1-7. page number: p. 7 (as a copy of Giotto's mosaic) url: Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1938. page number: 2: 254, no. 1837K (as Parri Spinelli) url: Popham, Arthur Ewart. Old Master Drawings: From the Collection of the Marquess of Northampton and Removed from Castle Ashby, Northampton. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1959. page number: no. 14 url: Virch, Claus, "A Page from Vasari's Book of Drawings," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin XIX no. 7 (March 1961): 185-93. page number: pp. 189-93, fig 5 (as Ottley engraving) url: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3257885. Walters Art Gallery. The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. page number: no. 32 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962. 1962. page number: pp. 34-35, no. 32, plate 35 (as Parri Spinelli?) url: Degenhart, Bernhard, and Annegrit Schmitt. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450. Berlin: Mann, 1968. page number: 2: 281, no. 183, 637; 3: plates 204a, b (as circle of Lorenzo Monaco) url: van Regteren Altena, E. Q., review of Degenhart, Bernhard, and Annegrit Schmitt (Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450. Berlin: Mann, 1968) Master Drawings VIII (1970): 396-402 page number: p. 400 (as Parri Spinelli?) url: Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: Reproduced: no. 50 url: Levenson, Jay A., Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn L. Sheehan. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. 1973. page number: 160, fig. 7-1 verso (as Parri Spinelli) url: Ragghianti Collobi, Licia, and Giorgio Vasari. Il libro de'disegni del Vasari. A A. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1974. page number: 1: 28, 38, 39. 2: figs. 46, 47 (as Antonio Veneziano) url: Zucker, Mark J. “Parri Spinelli Drawings Reconsidered.” Master Drawings, vol. 19, no. 4, 1981, pp. 426–484. page number: mentions pp. 432, 440n28, 440n35, 441n37, 441n41, illus. pl 19 url: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1553595. Bean, Jacob, Turčić, Lawrence, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jacob Bean with the Assistance of Lawrence Turčić. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. . page number: p. 170 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/71963 Köhren-Jansen, Helmtrud. Giottos Navicella: Bildtradition, Deutung, Rezeptionsgeschichte. Worms am Rhein: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993. page number: p.p. 225-26; fig. 75 url: Elen, Albert J. Italian late-medieval and Renaissance drawing-books: from Giovannino de'Grassi to Palma Giovane : a codicological approach. Leiden: A.J. Elen, 1995. page number: repr. p. 511, no. 6, cat. no. 10; repr. p. 522, no. 24, cat. no. 47 url: Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. page number: pp. 102-107, no. 20 url: 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: P. 8, 18-21, 283; Reproduced: P. 19, cat. no. 1 url: Goldner, George, review of Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Master Drawings vol 40, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 174-176. page number: 175. url: Bresciani, Aristide. Spinello di Luca detto Aretino. 2021, 247. page number: Mentioned and reproduced; p. 247, fig, 67. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.38.a/1961.38.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.38.a/1961.38.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.38.a/1961.38.a_full.tif