A Fountain in a Grotto, ca. 1598, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black and red chalk, maximum, corners

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A Fountain in a Grotto, ca. 1598, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black and red chalk, maximum, corners cut to octagonal shape: 10 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. ( × cm), Giovanni Guerra (Italian, Modena 1544–1618 Rome), During the 16th century, Italian nobles developed a taste for artificial grottoes in their gardens and sometimes even in their houses. Artists, such as Giambologna and Bernardo Buontalenti became very skilled in inventing landscapes of rocks and shells often inhabited by amphibians, invertebrates and other animals

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