Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Transverse Section
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Architect
content: D. Cerato, Italian
label: Co-Designer
content: D. Danieletti, Italian
notes: label: Description
content: Drawing in shades of rose and gray of transverse section of a theater showing a large central section with a pitched roof flanked by bays with lower roof. View of five tiers of boxes topped by a shallow dome, the proscenium with curtain, and a large dark semicircular shape seen through the roofing timbers. The rose pink indicates structural supports.
place: label: made in
content: Venice, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-120
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 34 x 44.9 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in. )