Capriccio for a Painted Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1690
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A high domed interior space permeated by billowing clouds with two twisted garland-entwined columns, an imposing balustrade, and an arched colonnade below a sweeping infinity where angels fly.
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: 1901-39-1702
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, brush and bistre, black chalk, on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 x 25.2 cm (14 in. x 9 15/16 in.)