Design for the East Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1755
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural study of arch topped with pediment. A semicircle is inscribed into an oblong, consisting of mouldings with a trophy of weapons inside. Dolphins lie upon the mouldings in the wedges. Laterally are the capitals of two embedded Corinthian columns supporting the entablature. Above is a stylized pediment with a mask between dolphins. The latter are intertwined with festoons hanging from two eagles standing above the corners of the pediment. The eagles' wings are displayed, the inner ones elevated, the outer inverted. Upon the point of the pediment stands an urn with garlands dragging from the handles. Its upper part is partially in front of an entablature that spreads across the upper portion of the picture and is divided into panels by consoles featuring ram's heads. The panels on the sides of the urn are decorated with a relief featuring two women standing beside a candelabra.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: place depicted
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-485
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, gray wash, black chalk on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 13.7 × 18.6 cm (5 3/8 × 7 5/16 in.)