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Ceiling Vault Decoration, Camera da Letto, Sala di Cornelia di Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani1816

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Decoration for vaulted ceiling. Fret band and frame subdivided into nine panels. Lower rows: quadrangular panels decorated with flying genii; central panel shows seated woman and putto. Top row: triangular panels decorated with wreaths and masks. Inscribed in ink, above drawing: Camera da letto. In right corner, sketch in octagonal panel; Cornelia sitting in room with two standing figures. Inscribed above, in ink: corneglia madre dei/ grachi. Verso: sketch with variation of decoration. Below, one more framing frieze with rinceaux. Central panel, second row: Venus with putto holding looking-glass. Bottom row: panels decorated with dancing women and children beside candelabrum.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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