Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
1567
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1567
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto) is a 1567 by Gherardo Cibo, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, careful drawing of a farm nestled between rolling hills and tall trees. Cibo wasn’t a full-time artist—he was a botanist who sketched plants in their natural homes. This drawing is like a field note: he wrote the name of a cornflower he’d just picked right on the paper. The lines are simple, but they show exactly where he stood. If you like quiet, precise nature studies, look up *sfumato*—a soft shading technique that makes edges blur like mist.
