Landscape with a Church beside a Lake / Crescenzio Onofrij
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- Accession Number
- 1958/2.53
- Title
- Landscape with a Church beside a Lake
- Artist
- Crescenzio Onofrij
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- ca 1632 - ca 1698
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1675-1689
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lazio (region)
- Roma (province)
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lazio (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Roma (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 59.4 cm x 41.1 cm (23 3/8 in. x 16 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts a serene landscape. A road running alongside a stream appears in the foreground among rocky outcrops, thick vegetation and bushy trees. The vista opens out in the middle ground and includes a lake at the right with a church standing on its shores at the left. A town is visible on the far shore of the lake and low mountains rise in the distance.
- Subject Matter
- Crescenzio Onofri was trained in his hometown of Rome in the school of the painter Gaspard Dughet, who was himself trained by the famous French artist Nicolas Poussin. The classicizing influence of Dughet and Claude Lorraine can be seen in the careful balancing of elements and the measured distribution of light within Onofri's drawing. While Onofri probably drew inspiration from the Italian countryside--the church in the middle ground, for instance, shows architectural features particular to the region around Rome--the view itself was certainly one that Onofri constructed from his imagination.
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- drawing and drawing techniques
- image-making processes and techniques
- lacustrine bodies
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- riverine bodies
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation spaces
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1477 x 987
- File Size
- 174 KB
- Record
- 1958/2.53
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"Landscape with a Church beside a Lake; Crescenzio Onofrij." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-2.53/1958_2.53.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
