Landscape (Wooded Approach to a Town), Fra Bartolomeo, ca. 1508

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Landscape (Wooded Approach to a Town), ca. 1508, Pen and brown ink, 8 7/16 x 11 1/2 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, Florence 1473–1517 Florence), Dated about 1508, this drawing can be considered among the earliest pure landscape studies in European art. Confining himself to the use of pen and ink, Fra Bartolomeo employed a great variety of strokes, from dots to dashes to hatches, in order to convey the textures and details of the Tuscan landscape

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