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Ceiling of a Bedroom

Felice Giani1820–23

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical rectangle. Above and below bands with ornament in middle. Remainder divided into lozenge, four triangles. Inside trophies of objects. In center of lozenges two flying female genii, seen in profile, raising their outside arms with wreath, supporting their inside hands caduceus. They are framed by circle formed by garlands connected by bowknots. In lower corner of lozenges, pencil sketch for band cresting border. Center right edge, inscription by Giani horizontally: "camera da letto."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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