Design for a Lunette, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Summer
date: label: Date
content: 1689–96
name: label: Designer
content: Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Study for the decoration of a lunette in the church of Corpus Domini, two figures of children representing Summer. A reclining seated child and a standing one, at right, are shown from below, with a simple horizontal line as an indication of their place of support. The walking child is turned toward the left. He or she raises the left hand, carrying a bunch of olive branches or stalks of wheat. The sitting child carries in both hands sheaf, the upper part of which is supported by the right arm of the walking child.
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: 1938-88-6428
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 ink, brush and gray-brown watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.3 × 19.1 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)