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At the bottom of the sheet, Minozzi signed his name —“Flaminio Minozzi Pit.ore ed Architetto f.”— claiming his dual status of painter (pittore) and architect (architetto). The second signature, in the lower right corner—“Filippo Hercolani approvo”— indicates that Minozzi’s patron, a member of the aristocratic Hercolani family, approved the final design. A flap applied to the upper right corner hides an earlier version of the design, with a different solution for the shape of the central opening and for the architectural elements around it.","remarks":"Italian Drawings"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (probably given to the Art Museum in the 1940s).","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1792,"sortnumber":"1968  193x","published_date":"2026-02-11 08:38:28.535537","objectid":10993,"dimensions":"35.3 × 48 cm (13 7/8 × 18 7/8 in.)\r\nframe: 62.2 × 77.5 × 2.5 cm (24 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 1 in.)","on_view":false}