Design for a Painted Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 1830–39
name: label: Designer
content: Marco Capizucchi, Italian, 1784 - 1844
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format design for a painted ceiling. The ceiling is slightly vaulted. More than the lower half is shown. In the center is a broad octagonal representation: figures of soldiers lead a man away from his wife and two children. She is kneeling before a potentate who is sitting upon a throne. Two men with swords are threatening her. The panel is framed by an entablature shown from below. The remaining space is divided into spheric quadrangles and triangles, those in the corners are treated as loggias with standing trophies of arms. Above these are representations of fighting, armed riders. Outside is a moulding. The caption is cut off. Verso: the plan of a ceiling in pen and ink.
place: label: made in
content: Rimini, 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: 1940-21-21
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, gold, graphite on paper; verso: pen and ink
label: Dimensions
content: 35.1 × 45.4 cm (13 13/16 × 17 7/8 in.)