Plazza del Comune, Pistoia

Joseph Pennell American

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Pennell, a Philadelphia-born Quaker decided to become an illustrator and printmaker, then worked as a clerk before studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He visited Europe for the first time in 1883, on commission from The Century Magazine (formerly Scribner's), and visited Italy, depicting unconventional sites and points of view. Here he the arcade of the Palazzo Communale, a Renaissance palace on the main square in Pistoia, Tuscany, with pedestrians and a horse and rider moving across the foreground.

Plazza del Comune, Pistoia, Joseph Pennell (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1857–1926 New York), Etching and drypoint

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