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Domenico Quaglio

Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin

1830
gray and brown wash and framing lines in pen and black ink

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Gothic architecture, the type seen in this drawing, was associated with Germany based on a false assumption that a Germanic tribe, the Goths, had originated the style.

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