# Design for a Festival Entry \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FONTANA, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, traces of red chalk, 290 x 2665 mm ## Commentary Design for a Festival Entry \(detail\) c. 1572 Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, traces of red chalk, 290 x 2665 mm Kunstbibliothek, Berlin This drawing is related to courtly festival designs. Its extreme length suggests that it was originally presented as a roll, used for books from antiquity onwards in Europe. Tournament descriptions were often presented in the form of rolls: this is frequently the case at the Habsburg courts of the later sixteenth century. ## Related artworks - [Design for a Festival Entry \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()