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A View of Bracciano with the Church of S. Maria Assunta, by Bartholomeus Breenberg, c. 1619–33

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Bartholomeus Breenberg

Dutch, 1599–1657

A View of Bracciano with the Church of S. Maria Assuntac. 1619–33

Brown and gray inks and washes applied with point of brush and brush, with traces of graphite underdrawing on cream antique laid paper

Image and Sheet: 8.7 x 15 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.); Mounted: 23.6 x 30.8 cm (9 5/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art · 2020.127

In the early 1600s, artists from Northern Europe began to take long trips to Italy as part of their artistic training. More about this work

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Format

Archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm cotton paper, with a white border.

Size

At this size the museum's file prints at 191 ppi: sharp at arm's length, a little softer than the smaller sizes up close.

Size
20 × 16 in · image 17¾ × 10¼
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gsm
Price
$56

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About this work

In the early 1600s, artists from Northern Europe began to take long trips to Italy as part of their artistic training. Bartholomeus Breenberg traveled to Italy around 1620 and probably stayed for at least 12 years. While there, he sketched ancient ruins and the countryside, features he would use in his paintings when he returned to Amsterdam in the 1630s. The area around the Lago di Bracciano, a volcanic lake northwest of Rome, was home to several medieval villages that provided charming vistas for artists. In his view, Breenberg emphasized the crumbling turret of a medieval castle in Bracciano in front of the ordered, linear outline of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta beyond. Combining gray and brown ink washes to plot gradations in tone, he created vivid contrasts of light and shade, capturing the effects of the bright Italian sunshine.

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How it was made

Graphite
Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.
Laid paper
Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

Bartholomeus Breenberg

Dutch, 1599–1657

Dutch Golden Age

Seventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.

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Public domain. The Cleveland Museum of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number
2020.127
Credit
Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Type
Drawing
Department
Drawings
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