Cleveland Museum of Art

Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape

Gherardo Cibo

Date

1567

Medium

pen and brown ink (iron gall)

Culture

Italy, 16th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating, at upper left, the dried cornflower ( concia fior da liso ) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveals his knowledge of Florentine and Venetian models. The identity of the artist of this and related sheets was not made until the late 20th century, before which he was known erroneously as "Messer. Ulisse Severino da Cingoli."

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