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Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Transverse Section
D. Cerato, Italian1788
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Drawing in shades of rose and gray of transverse section of a theater showing a large central section with a pitched roof flanked by bays with lower roof. View of five tiers of boxes topped by a shallow dome, the proscenium with curtain, and a large dark semicircular shape seen through the roofing timbers. The rose pink indicates structural supports.
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- Title: Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Transverse Section
- Creator: D. Cerato, Italian
- Date Created: 1788
- Location Created: Venice, Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on cream paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
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