Design for Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format. Variation of design 1901-39-3181. Putto raises tablet with inscription "METAS" [tasio] near monument at left. No hermae shown, but upon entablature lie wreaths and frieze inscribed with names "ORFEO, CIMAROSA, ARISTOFANE, GOLDONI, SOFFOCLE, ALFIERI." Inscription below: "Teatro delle muse." Figures fill the scene, an angel in flight blows a horn at upper right. From the occulus at the top of the dome shines a beam of light onto a bust of a male figure being crowned by a winged figure.
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: 1901-39-3184
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
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 off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 x 27.6 cm (10 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.)