Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway
date: label: Date
content: 1807
name: label: Artist
content: Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One quarter is shown. An entablature is shown from below. Above its front rise the balustrades of upper galleries. Their back walls are decorated with a battle scene at the short side, with an ornamental candelabrum, and a statue in a niche, at the long side
label: Description
content: . An arch opens in the center of the latter another one stands across the corner. Below it is the figure of a Roman emperor, seen from the back, upon a pedestal, with two female allegories, supporting a festoon, beside it. An upper entablature is supported by columns and pilasters. Above it rise arches, supporting an entablature as the frame of the central representation in the sky. On top of the upper entablature, at the short side, is a trophy of arms, and the figures of two women in a partly erased fantastic architecture. Signature below at left: "Flaminio Minozzi 1807" In the center below: Scala di Piedi no.13 di Bologna.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7211
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: Brush and gray and brown wash, pen and ink, on paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 36.1 x 47.2 cm (14 3/16 x 18 9/16 in.)