Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1715–18
name: label: Artist
content: Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747
label: Dedicatee
content: Christopher Columbus, Italian, d. 1506
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Composition shows the figure of Columbus and his retinue landing in the New World. Columbus, standing at left between a monk with a crucifux and a soldier with a banner, raises his head and arms in prayer. Other men cluster around him or beach long boats at right; masts of two ships are shown in left distance. Groups of naked Native Americans flee in terror or kneel before the invaders. At center, above rock, is the allegorical figure of Faith with Cross, Host, and Chalice, borne up by angels.
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: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-1-92
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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 gray wash over black chalk on two sheets (joined) of cream laid paper; Verso: Graphite on two sheets (joined) of cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.2 × 54.4 cm (10 5/16 × 21 7/16 in.)