Design for a Monochrome Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1689–94
name: label: Designer
content: Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figural group surrounding an urn on a pedestal. Three blindfolded children surround the vase, each clutching it. A flying putto, who has uncovered his eyes, holds a ball above. In an escutcehon at the pedestal is inscribed: "MVNIFICENTIE / ET / MAGNIFICENTIE / DECVS." A woman standing at left embraces the vase and holds a cornucopia under which the foreparts of a griffin are shown. A woman, at right, holds a mace and a crown over a circular domed architectural structure carried by a child. Framing lines.
place: label: made in
content: Bologna, 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: 1901-39-2459
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 ink, brush and black wash, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.3 × 29 cm (16 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)