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Project for Ceiling Design: Aurora
Felice Giani1810–25
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Circular composition. Aurora flies toward right holding leaves above a basket which is carried by putti. One putto below pours water from a jar. In the left background is Apollo rising in a chariot. Framed by a square in graphite, the lines being divided into eight parts.
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- Title: Project for Ceiling Design: Aurora
- Creator: Felice Giani
- Creator Lifespan: 1758/1823
- Date Created: 1810–25
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome.
- Paper Support: Rough, off-white laid paper
- Markings: Watermark: escutcheon with three lines of letters.
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink in lower margin, center: L'aurora. In graphite around perimeter of drawing on all sides, each one of the eight sections is numbered accordingly: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
- Exhibitions: American Federation of Arts, Italian Drawings 1780-1880, March 1980 - January 1981.London, England - Victoria & Albert, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design -- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, NY, June 13 - August 12, 1973, no. 84 (illus.); traveled to The Brooklyn Museum, December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Museum of Art: Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. September 21 - November. 1, 1964.
- Dimensions: 33.1 x 30 cm (13 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Richard P. Wunder, Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century from the Collection of Cooper Union Museum (New York: Lambert-Spector, Inc., 1962): no. 32 (illus).Henry Hawley, Neo-classicism: Style and Motif (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1964): no. 157 (illus.).William H. Schab, Catalogue 50, no. 65. Elaine Evans Dee, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design -- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, NY (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973): p. 38, no. 84 (illus.)The American Federation of Arts, Italian Drawings 1780-1880 (New York, 1980): no. 9 (illus.).Aquaviva, Stefano and Vitali, Marcella, Felice Giani (Faenza, 1979): p. 291.
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