Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments
date: label: Date
content: 1811–14
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sheet of studies of sculptures and architectural fragments. It shows ten fragments of monuments, various in type, some architectural and some decorative. At top row, to the left, a panel depicting a satyr watching as Venus lifts the bow of Cupid. It is inscribed: coreggio Bologna. On the right hand side is a niche with a statue of a man in armor. Inscribed: Bologna monumento del sei cento. At the middle portion, first to the left is a decorative panel, oriented vertically, with military details/trophy (helmet, armor, drum). Next to it, to the right, is a statue of a man in armor, lower parts of the legs missing. Inscription to the right of the statue: mounumento / sei cento / Bolognese. Next to the statue, to the right, is a fragment of a spandrel with a relief of a female figure (Genius). Inscribed within the arched opening: 17 OTTVBRE / XAMBECARI / 1811. The bottom row consists of five small-scale architectural details.
label: Description
content: Verso: study of the muscles of a man's legs with reference numbers and notations in pen and brown ink
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: 1901-39-2199
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 brown wash, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 37.4 x 25.4 cm (14 3/4 x 10 in.)