Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli
date: label: Date
content: after 1795
name: label: Architect
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In a landscape with a citadel rising in the background at right, a monument stands upon a pedestal of three oval plinths. The monument is an urn surrounded by a group of three Gods: Apollo (at right, holding a lyre), Tiber (at left, holding a spear), and Minerva (in center, holding a laurel wreath). The gods are bestowing honors upon the bust atop the urn. The bust is inscribed with "CORILLA", and the urn with INPROVISO/ SI.BENE.CHE./ FU.CORONATA./ IN/ CAMPIDOGLIO".
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: 1901-39-280
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 beige laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.2 x 29.4 cm (8 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)