Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of the scheme of -1532, the lower part of the arch at left shows one half of a panel as shown at right. A woman sits in front of it raising her right hand holding indistinct objects. The oblong panel at right shows a sphere standing below a festoon. Two women, shown from the back, are seated beside the shaft of the sphere, the left one is shown. Landscape in ruins. Putti are in wedges of the arch. Two putti support a medallion portrait; they are seated upon the entablature, in front of the coffered vault. The central painting is intended to be ovoidal.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-1534
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 ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20 x 27.2 cm (7 7/8 x 10 11/16 in.)