Cleveland Museum of Art

Navicella (recto); Two Drawings of Ships (verso)

Parri Spinelli

Date: c. 1410s
Medium: pen and brown ink (iron gall)
Culture: Italy, Arezzo, 15th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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