Designs for Mausoleum
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top: shown is a chapel of design similar to -1133, and the left flanking motif: two towers of alternative designs, connected with a bench. Center: shown are the chapel and the left side of the colonnade standing upon a platform, and ending in a steeple. The steps leading to it are flanked by pyramids which are flanked by two monumental sarcophagi, the pedestals of which are connected with colonnade. The left motif is shown. The elevation of a church is drawn over the design. Bottom: right sketch of a curved bench, shown from the side. Left: section of a bench (?). Originally, the sheet was a part of a larger one, with the plan of a church.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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: 1938-88-1132
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 brown wash, graphite on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.5 x 39.1 cm (12 x 15 3/8 in.)