Lot 42: BERNARDO BUONTALENTI

(Florence 1536-1608 Florence) Architectural Design for a Loggia. Red chalk on cream laid paper. 270x165 mm; 10x61/2 inches. The letters R A with a 3-leaf clover watermark. Ex-collection Herbert List, blind stamp verso (not in Lugt). For a similar drawing, see Tofani/Smith, Sixteenth Century Tuscan Drawings from the Uffizi, New York/Oxford, 1988, number 48, illustration p. 113.