Volterra

Date: 1860
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1977/1977.105_1a.jpg?itok=pLxjhfWZ width="426" height="208" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/volterra-25675"]] || Title: **Volterra**

Artist: **Elihu Vedder** Born: New York, New York 1836 Died: Rome, Italy 1923

Medium: oil on canvas mounted on canvas Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (31.1 x 64.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1977.105 || This extraordinary rock formation is located in Volterra in Italy, site of an ancient Etruscan town. The white limestone cliffs are famous as a source of alabaster, a soft translucent mineral used for carving sculpture and decorative objects. In recalling his visits to the site, Elihu Vedder wrote, "On one side of town there is a great ravine, and the hillside has been crumbling away fro centuries, they think there is a subterranean river under it."
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