1520 AD ITALY GIOVANNI MONTE OLIVETTO MAGGIORE

A mazzocchio, the faceted torus ring Renaissance artists used to practise perspective construction, and a cabinet of wireframe geometric solids, intarsia by Fra Giovanni da Verona at the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. Unlike the panels he made for Siena Cathedral in 1503-1505, this later set stayed in the abbey he worked from, part of a decorative programme he continued there into the 1520s.

The card

• Date — 1,520 AD
• Where — Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany, Italy. 43.1966, 11.5127 — site
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org

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