Five Ceiling Schemes
date: label: Date
content: 1815–23
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top: Oblong ceiling with three sections, framed by bands; entire panels of sections held by pair of crossed boughs. Second row: at left, oblong ceiling with shell motifs in corners, connected by rows of arches. Inner oblong undecorated. At right, oblong ceiling with inner square into which octagon inscribed. Segments with figures shown in corners. Bottom left, oblong ceiling with richly decorated imaginary vaults and central oblong with landscape. Alternative suggestions made for schemes of decorations. Open arches alternatively suggested at bottom in opposite direction: oblong ceiling with inner square into which octagon inscribed. Segements with figures shown in corners. Caption at bottom: in opposite direction, "dedicat a romolo". Bottom right, oblong ceiling with row imaginary arches outside. Inside bands frame oblong. Partly sketched decorations. Figures inscribed. Written on top: "sogetto nasita di Romolo nelle lunette li fatti/ dei Romani neli triangoli sopra le lunette l'im' magini delli dei." At bottom: "cornice d'oro/ 2 tondo bianco rabesco colorito con animali e figure/ 3 rabesco di stucco con tutte la fascie di stucco/ 4 fondi azuri con figure colanti colorite/ 5 cornici doro/ 6 Lunette ("colorite" struck out) con quadri coloriti/ 7 fregio di stucco." Right part of oblong show at left.
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: 1901-39-1654
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.8 x 35.7 cm (11 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.)