Design for the Obelisk of St. Dominic, Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1737
name: label: Artist
content: Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Lower section consists of a bilateral design for a hexagonal platform with posts with alternate suggestions on each side. The platform is shown from above. The obelisk is divided in many sections. The plans of the lower half are hexagonal. Various ornaments decorate the sections, including a mermaid, brackets with urns, and an escutcheon with cherub above.
label: Description
content: Angels stand on brackets and there is a bust of a Pope on the frontispiece. At top of pedestal, seated and kneeling angels carrying a sphere upon which a saint stands. There is a dog with a torch beside him.
label: Description
content: (Study for plague monument in Piazza before S. Domenico Maggiore, Naples.)
place: label: made in
content: Europe
label: Place
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: 1901-39-218
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 brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 80.2 x 30.8 cm (31 9/16 x 12 1/8 in. )