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Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated
Francesco Paninibefore 1787
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Interior of Basilica of St. Peter's on Holy Thursday. View is asymmetrical, from a position between the left side aisle and the nave. Interior is illuminated by a large cross, composed of several hundred lit oil lamps, suspended in front of the Bernini baldichin. Figures stand under the cross and scattered around the nave.
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- Title: Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated
- Creator: Francesco Panini
- Creator Lifespan: 1720/1730
- Date Created: before 1787
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle
- Medium: Brush and watercolor over pen and ink on tan laid paper
- Exhibitions: Princeton, NJ-The Art Museum, Princeton University, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle (12 October -8 December 1991), no. 64 [traveled to Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 25 February-5 April 1992; The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 28 April - 7 June 1992; University of Michigan Museum of Art, September 25-October 1992; Duke Unversity Museum of Art, 6 November -20 December 1992].Storrs, CT-The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, The Academy of Europe: Rome in the 18th Century (13 October - 11 November 1973), no. 51.
- Dimensions: 43.8 x 56.4 cm (16 9/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: den Broeder, Frederick A. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle, exh. cat. (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1991), p. 144, no. 64, p. 145 (illus.).
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