Design for a Painted Ceiling of Irregular Shape: Aurora
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1810
name: label: Designer
content: Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a painted ceiling, viewed directly from below. The central circular decoration shows Aurora (a winged figure riding in a chariot pulled by two horses; a putto with a burning torch flies in front of her). The scene is placed within a tromp l'oeil architectural framework. At each corner, an illusionary lunette with a pointed arch contains a bust on a pedestal: Orpheus for Music, Homer for Poetry, Apelles for Painting, and Vitruvius for Architecture.
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: 1901-39-1803
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 48.5 x 48.5 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. ); irregular