Design for a Sepulchral Monument
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The back wall of a pavilion has the shape of a niche. In its is below the sarcophagus supported by Atlantes, and above an oval niche with an urn. A festoon surrounds the lower part of this niche. Laterally and in the front are no walls, but arches supported by two pillars. The entablature is projecting in front of the corners and is there supported by two obliquely standing columns. Rectangularly projecting steps give access to the platform. Above the entablature is an attic, with figures standing above the columns. The dome has the shape of a pedestal, with an escutcheon on top, supported by putti, of whom the left is sitting and blowing a trumpet, the right one apparently knels. Below is the left hald of the plan, and a sketch of a crouching griffin as a part of a decoration.
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: 1938-88-1349
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 on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.1 x 20 cm (11 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)