Hill profile: Monteoliveto, Bellosguardo, Montici, Bitta
Red-chalk topographic profile of the hills around Florence, four localities named
A faint red-chalk profile of a broken line of hills seen from a distance, drawn as a topographic study of the heights ringing Florence. Small mirror-script labels along the crest name Monteoliveto, Bellosguardo, Montici and Bitta, well-known hills and localities on the south and west sides of the city. The drawing belongs to the sequence of landscape profiles tied to Leonardo's survey of the Arno valley.
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Named hills: Monteoliveto, Bellosguardo, Montici, Bitta
Four localities are written against points along the drawn ridge, identifying real hills around Florence. Naming the profile in this way converts the sketch into a topographic survey record of the terrain.