View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)
1513
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1513
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso) is a 1513 by Wolfgang Huber, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a castle perched on a wooded hill, drawn in quick, looping pen lines. Huber sketched this on the road—probably between two Austrian cities. The ink lines feel loose, like he was moving fast, but they still show every leaf and rock. On the back of the same sheet, he doodled an eight-sided cup, maybe just to pass the time. For more drawings like this, look up the subject: Austria.
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…
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.
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