Branch of Dittany with Four Hazelnuts and Two Pears
by GARZONI, Giovanna, Tempera and traces of black pencil on vellum, 555 x 417 mm
This work is one of the four studies of plants kept in the Uffizi, Florence.
In the present work there is a precarious balance between scientific and decorative: a dualism is revealed in the work’s descriptive precision as a document, and in the inclusion of artistic conceits such as shadowing, which emphasize an artistic ambition rather than purely scientific.