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Set Design showing Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias
Unknownca. 1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Palaces with porticoes and colonnades at left. Statues of two centaurs placed on plinths flank a low stair. At center, a tall obelisk stands with Castel Sant'Angelo behind and the Ponte Elio in the distance. Another palace, decorated with statues and a flower filled vase is at right.
Details
- Title: Set Design showing Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 1740
- Physical Dimensions: w482 x h320 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray watercolor on white laid paper
- Viewing Notes: Views such as these were adapted by many designers, often unidentified, for use as theatrical sets, where recognizable landmarks, often located great distances from each other, would be assembled together.
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite on verso: P 19 / upper
- Exhibitions: CHNDM - Excavating the Vocabulary of Design: 18th Century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection. [Ground floor gallery], November 4, 2005 - January 8, 2008.American Federation of the Arts: traveling exhibition. "The Baroque Illusion" November 11, 1958-November 11, 1961 (Venues not available)Amherst, MA - University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Baroque Stage Designs" November 6 - November 18, 1961. #18.New York, NY - A.M. Adler Gallery "Drawings by Italian Architects" March 18 - April 5, 1975.Cologne, Germany - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, "Idee und Anspruch der Architektur" December 14, 1979-January 27, 19980. #23.Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts, "Designed for Theater" October 16, 1984 - January 6, 1985.New York - CHNDM "The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource" March 26, 1991-August 30, 1992, exhibited in rotation 1: March 26 - July 8, 1991.
- Dimensions: 32 x 48.2cm (12 5/8 x 19in.)Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
- Bibliography: The Baroque Illusion American Federation of Arts (New York, American Federation of Arts, l958) #18.Dee, Elaine Evans. Idee und Anspruch der Architektur Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne, Germany, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, l979) #33.Werner Oechslin. "Il Contributo dei Bibiena Nuove Attiva Architettoniche", Bollettino del Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architetture Andrea Palladio, Vol. XVII, (l975) 145-157, Note 83 (Illus. 76)Dee, Elaine Evans . Designed for Theater (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, l984), no. 31.
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