Design for a Painted Square Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 1856
name: label: Designer
content: Eugenio Agneni, Italian, 1816 - 1897
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format design for a painted ceiling. In the center is a rosette, supported by four supports rising obliquely from the corners, each consisting of a base, two columns, and a winged bust upon a base as a crest. Between the columns stand putti upon pedestals. Women sit upon the corners of the base. In the center of the sides are pavilions with statues of goddesses; women sit beside. Outside is a framing border consisting of oblongs with representations of putti, and circular oblique representations of the figures of women in the corners. An oblong with a classical representation as the decoration of a part of the frieze of the room is shown.
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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-19
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: Brush and gouache, graphite on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32 × 38.7 cm (12 5/8 × 15 1/4 in.)