Sepulchral Monument for Melchiore Cesarotti, Professor in Padua
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: The monument is shown obliquely. A circular pedestal rises in the center of an oblong rocky base. A female genius stands upon it, her left hand lies upon a cinerary urn, her right holds a laurel wreath. Bowls with flames, supported by swans, flank the pedestal.
label: Description
content: Inscription at the base:
label: Description
content: CESAROTTI.QV/ CIAGE/ E.LA.SUA.GLORIA.VIVE.PER.NOI
label: Description
content: In landscape setting. Part of a framing line on top.
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: 1901-39-278
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 gray wash, on blued-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 22 x 15.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)