Design for a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
date: label: Date
content: 1590–1610
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Intended to be executed with white marble and marbles of many colors. Below is a base. One sarcophagus stands in the central panel of the dado. Above it is a lion skin serving as a tablet for the inscription. IT is laterally held by putti sitting upon moldings. Above is an order of three embedded Ionic columns. In the central inter-columniation is a niche with the statue of an ederly man in armor. Laterally are two niches with two elderly men each with a book. Above the lateral niches are escutcheons. A pediment is above the central one. Above the entablature are in the middle a pediment with an escutcheon with a crown and laterally pedestals with urns. They are connected with the pediment by scrolls.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-8227
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 51.5 × 36.8 cm (20 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.)