Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli
date: label: Date
content: 1820–40
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Rossini, Italian, 1790 – 1857
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design of a ceiling. One quarter of the design is shown. In the center is a tent cupola shown from below. It is supported at four corners by bucrania and in the middle of the curved sides by winged female half-figures, who are on top of an arch which is supported by two satyr gaines. In the center of the cupola is a panel with a sphere supported by four children. A few grotesque motifs are in the remaining panels. From the bucrania hang festoons, the other ends of which are held by women who stand near the geines. Below the bucrania are sitting figures of gods; shown are Zeus and Ares. Outside are framing panels of different shapes.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-4395
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.8 x 29.5 cm (10 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)