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Design for the Obelisk of St. Dominic, Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
Domenico Antonio Vaccaroca. 1737
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Lower section consists of a bilateral design for a hexagonal platform with posts with alternate suggestions on each side. The platform is shown from above. The obelisk is divided in many sections. The plans of the lower half are hexagonal. Various ornaments decorate the sections, including a mermaid, brackets with urns, and an escutcheon with cherub above.Angels stand on brackets and there is a bust of a Pope on the frontispiece. At top of pedestal, seated and kneeling angels carrying a sphere upon which a saint stands. There is a dog with a torch beside him.(Study for plague monument in Piazza before S. Domenico Maggiore, Naples.)
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- Title: Design for the Obelisk of St. Dominic, Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
- Creator: Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
- Creator Lifespan: 1678/1745
- Date Created: ca. 1737
- Physical Dimensions: w308 x h802 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Signed: Signed in pen and brown ink at lower right: D Ant. Vaccaro m p
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Paper Support: Cream laid paper
- Markings: Watermark: Circle with running horse above P
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at upper center: Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Finch College Museum of Art. "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," February 4 - March 20, 1970; traveled to Wellesley, MA, Davis Art Museum, September 12 - November 22, 1970.
- Dimensions: 80.2 x 30.8 cm (31 9/16 x 12 1/8 in. )
- Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans. The Two Sicilies - Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum: [catalogue of a loan exhibition, February 4 - March 20, 1970]. New York: Finch College, Museum of Art, 1970, p. 19 (illus.) cat. # 32. Hecht, Johanna, "I'm No Angel: A Terracotta Model of St. Vincent Ferrer by Giuseppe Sammartino," The Metropolitan Museum Journal, no. 37 (Fall, 2002) pp?
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