Design for Ceiling with Spartan Women in Central Rectangular Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1800–1810
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Spartan women giving shields to their husbands and sons while exhorting them. Setting shows vaulted hall. Six oval medallions surround oblong. Medallions show seated gods, respectively Neptune, Venus, Mars, Zeus, Minerva and Apollo. Quadrangles dispersed obliquely at corners. Left ones contain battle scenes. At right top corner, victor in race of chariots. At right bottom corner, a victoriously racing chariot. Sea god shown at right. Upper part of decoration for wedge shown around right bottom corner; grotesque plant candelabrum with panoply in top center. Verso: representation of same theme outlined in graphite.
place: label: made in
content: 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1659
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 x 33.5 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)