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Design for a Ceiling Painting on Theme of Olympus
Antonio Manno1780-1790
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Inscribed in a square. Top: The seated Diana converses with Jupiter; Apollo stands between the two. Bottom: the flyng Hermes puts his right hand on the left leg of the seated Venus. A putto carriesthe broken bow of Cupid away.
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Details
- Title: Design for a Ceiling Painting on Theme of Olympus
- Creator: Antonio Manno
- Creator Lifespan: 1752/1831
- Date Created: 1780-1790
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and black and gray gouche, pen and black ink, black chalk, white gouache on paper
- Provenance: Ex-collection: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Dimensions: 29.6 x 25.5 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
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