Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase
date: label: Date
content: 1690–1710
name: label: Attributed to
content: Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701
label: Client
content: Maria Casimira, Queen of Poland, Polish, 1640 - 1716
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle showing view of an elaborate three-tier architectural stage setting containing multiple flights of stairs decorated with sculpture. At sides, foliage and trees which suggest a grotto. At top clouds with a seated allegorical personage.Around the stage is an architectural framework with additional draperies and an orchestral area surrounded by a curved balustrade. At top of frame work is an escutcheon containing the letter M.
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: 1938-88-23
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
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 gray, brown wash on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.5 x 37.0 cm (17 1/2 x 14 9/16 in. )