Design for a Sepulchral Monument for the Critic Galilei
date: label: Date
content: 1795–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Obliquely and somehwat incompletely shownn. Two steps lead to a platform. Apollo is seated on a plinth. His left hand lies upon an urn. Inscription at the front side of a base: "QVI - GIACE. IL. GALILEI. CHE. SCRISSE. CONTRO / IL. TASSO. VIVE. E. LVI. E. MORTO. PER. SE." Projecting at the front side corners of the base are columns, bearing inscriptions: "PER IL. TASSO" and "NON PLVS. VLTRA.", respectively, and topped by urns with fire. In landscape.
place: label: made in
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: 1938-88-2121
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, graphite on blued-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 21.7 x 27.9 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.)