Navicella (recto) Two Drawings of Ships (verso), c. 1410s. Parri Spinelli (Italian, 1387-c. 1453). Pen and brown ink (iron gall); sheet: x cm (10 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.); secondary support: x cm (12 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.). 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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