Design for a Theater Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format design for a painted ceiling. Form of a horseshoe, with a base line. Inscribed is an oval, framed by mouldings. The scheme is that of an opening bordered by an attic, the central part of a blossom the eight leaves of which are outlined by garlands. In each panel is a figure of a dancing girl, supported by a pedestal in the shape of a blossom calix. Below those are hexagons with a central circular medallion with a winged putto. The hexagons are connected by festoons, above which are trophies. Part of the entablature below, with the dial of the clock.
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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-22
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and gray-brown ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.7 × 28.7 cm (14 1/16 × 11 5/16 in.)