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Africa, Design for a Pendentive in the Baptismal Vestibule of St. Peter’s, Rome
Francesco Trevisani1713–26
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A seated figure with an elephant headdress holds a scorpion. A lion at the right.
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- Title: Africa, Design for a Pendentive in the Baptismal Vestibule of St. Peter’s, Rome
- Creator: Francesco Trevisani, Italian, 1656 - 1746
- Date Created: 1713–26
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, traces of black chalk on white laid paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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