"Villa near Assizi [sic]"

 

Barbara Olmsted

  1915 - 2013 (biography)

c. 1935  

pencil drawing 

6 7/16 x 7" image and paper size 

pencil, lower right 

 

 

 

ivory laid 

 

 

19970 

$250.00 

Olmsted is likely referring to the city and commune of Assisi located in central Italy. The domed structures could be the remnants of the ancient trulli stone huts, used as temporary field shelters and storehouses, that once dominated the landscape. They're now mostly found in the town of Alberobello.