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Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
Felice Giani1800–1801
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Curtains frame scene, stage frame shown. Middle-ground shown sitting at foot of enormous tree, in center Marsyas and Apollo plays flute. Muse character (?) holds wreath over head. At right, Listerners shown behind main audience at left in foreground. Middleground, at left Dionysos with procession. Caption written in ink over graphite: "Teatro della V musica."
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- Title: Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
- Creator: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Date Created: 1800–1801
- 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 over black chalk on wove paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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