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Title	MACKINTOSH 1: SKETCHES IN ITALY
View	Doorway, Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, 1891; Pencil, 10 x 7' (sight); S. & d. at lower right, C.R.M. / April, 1891, and Inscr. below, Doorway / Palazzo di Venezia / Rome.
Work Type	drawing sketch watercolor wash pencil
Creator Name	Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Creator Nationality	Scottish (British)
School of Creator	Glasgow School
Date.Creator Birth	1868
Date.Creator Death	1928
Climate Type	Mediterranean
Country	Italy
Art Medium	pencil
Dates	1896
Century	19C
Photographer	John Howarth
Subject Information	In 1890 Mackintosh was awarded the Alexander Thomson Travelling Scholarship (£60) for the design of a Chapter House. He decided to visit Italy and in the following year left Scotland for London; then he went by sea to Naples, arriving on April 5th. Thereafter he sketched and painted an extraordinary range of subjects -- vases in Pompeii, campanili, tombs, baptisteries, doorways, mosaics, and pulpits, as well as entire buildings. Mackintosh's ability to observe and record the essential elements of his subject with swift, unerring precision should be noted. He used various media, and one of his innovations was to sketch his subject very lightly in pencil and then draw the shadows only in strong, transparent washes of colour. There is a subtle relationship between the Italian subjects and Mackintosh's architecture and interior design in Glasgow; it was unquestionably in Italy that he first learnt the real importance of color, texture and pattern; the significance of light and shade, and their control by the architect -- and the fundamental necessity of good detailing. Research by Thomas Howarth, Ph.D. for Archivision, 1993
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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