Tuscany Protected from the Fury of War by Good Counsel and Wealth: Design for a Silver Plate by Ludovico Barchi

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Tuscany Protected from the Fury of War by Good Counsel and Wealth: Design for a Silver Plate by Ludovico Barchi

c. 1717

Filippo Luzi (Italian, 1665–1720)

The little-known Filippo Luzi produced this design for a silver plate executed in homage to Cosimo de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany from 1670 to 1723, as part of a series of silver salvers presented to successive grand dukes of Tuscany from 1680 to 1737 on the feast day of Saint John the Baptist. These were melted down at the turn of the eighteenth century during the French occupation, but they are known today through plaster casts.

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Object Details

Title:

Tuscany Protected from the Fury of War by Good Counsel and Wealth: Design for a Silver Plate by Ludovico Barchi

Date:

c. 1717

Artist:

Filippo Luzi (Italian, 1665–1720)

Medium:

Black chalk with wet brush and touches of brush and brown ink, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with tondo-shaped outline in brown ink (possibly iron gall), on joined blue laid paper, mounted down

Dimensions:

Sheet: 17 11/16 x 17 5/8 inches (45 x 44.7 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-586

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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