Austria / 1513
View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso) as drawing (Austria · 1513).
This sheet of paper, with drawings on both sides, as well as a poem, shows how artists in the Renaissance often used one sheet of paper for various purposes.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this drawing as pen and brown ink and credits Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553).
The museum's collection notes: This drawing depicts a castle in southern Germany in the area around the Danube River known for its wooded and rocky heights and dramatic views. Wolfgang Huber's meandering, pen and ink lines describe the contours of the earth and the lushness of summer foliage in a horizontal layout that focuses on the middle distance with a barely recorded foreground. Huber may have made the drawing during a journey between Feldkirch and Vienna as he traveled along the Danube. In 1513 when this drawing was made, landscape was rarely depicted as a subject in and of itself, but artists in the Danube region such as Huber exhibited a profound sensitivity to nat
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The Cleveland Museum of ArtView of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)Original explanation based on the sources above. Images carry their own reuse terms.