Wall and Ceiling Decorations in the Pompeiian Style
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Beginning at height of upper part of body of chandeliers, consisting of women standing upon columns and raising their arms. Ring with candles sketched at right edge. Women stand between embedded columns, at right. Broad intervals between columns decorated with tent-like drapery, in front, bowl of fruits hangs. Above: besides drapery are two festoons. Above entablatures are semi-circles each with flying putto, crossed by festoons. Main panel of ceiling: tiara in front of moon, between two putti and stars. Beside two square panels with circle inside, left one, a woman with flowers next to putto with plate; right one, winged figure with torch beside putto. Both circles with stars in background. Written below at right: "Longezza d'ella sala cento sesanta Palmi". Verso: in pencil, square and sheet on upper part of woman with trumpet.
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: 1901-39-1538
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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, black chalk, graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 36.6 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)