Design for the Grand Staircase at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1751–56
name: label: Workshop of
content: Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Section and half of the lowest flight of the stair shown in bird's eye view. The plan is an ovoid. Over the top flight are windows separated by groups of pilasters and columns. Over the entablature are windows in half-circles, at the bottom of a dome. Trophies of arms and girls' heads with festoons, respectively, decorate panels. Framing stripe. Verso, horizontally: The beginning of the right half is shown. Arched doorway corresponding to the ground and mezzanine floors. A loggia is in the floor. Pedestals before the wall panel are intended to carry statues. One order of the pilasters is shown in the top part, each bay containing a window of the third and fourth floors. A loggia is in the center, its framing architrave being built in a niche, the conch of which is visible over it. At bottom: two scales.
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: 1938-88-3913
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 black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 51.2 × 37.7 cm (20 3/16 × 14 13/16 in.)