Il Ponte Vecchio by Joseph Moussa

Il Ponte Vecchio by Joseph Moussa

Il Ponte Vecchio

Joseph Moussa

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Title

Il Ponte Vecchio

 
Artist
Year
2005  
Technique
watercolor with pen and ink detail 
Image Size
13 1/8 x 11" image and paper size 
Signature
ink, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
titled, dated "Firenze 2005", and copyrighted beneath signature; annotations in Italian, written backwards in "mirror writing" format, in the upper half of image 
Reference
 
Paper
Fabriano watercolor wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
21965 
Price
$400.00 
Description
In the upper margin of this work the artist has written a lengthy annotation in Italian, in the "mirror script" format often associated with da Vinci (we've flipped the secondary image horizontally for readers to decipher). Da Vinci often wrote his personal notes in mirror script, which scholars sometimes consider his way of dealing with the left-handed individual's predicament of smudged ink and graphite. Indeed, with its lightly drawn geometric mapping, this image of the famous Italian bridge, straddling the river Arno, holds a few nods to da Vinci, as well as to Giacomo Andrea de Ferrara, the Renaissance architect often considered an influence of da Vinci's. 
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