Project for a Painted Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1625–50
name: label: Artist
content: Cesare Sermei, Italian, about 1590? - 1668
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Embedded columns are supporting the oblong entablature, framing the view into the sky, there a female genius and two putti, supporting together one flower stem, are visible. In the middle of the short sides are views into vaulted rooms, with three putti, singing or playing instruments are sitting in the foreground. In the middle of the long sides are clouds, making also invisible the entablature with groups with the same occupation. On each side are two niches between the columns, each containing a statue. On the reverse a caption in handwriting of the 17th century: "Canagliore caesore Serme dipinto / ne la congregatione di gentilomi / Diputato razere meniconi". And in a somewhat antique handwriting: "Roma Roma".
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1608
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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: Mat: 22 x 28 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 54.1 x 39 cm (21 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.)