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Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling
Francesco Galli Bibiena1715–20
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Details
- Title: Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling
- Creator: Francesco Galli Bibiena
- Creator Lifespan: 1659/1739
- Date Created: 1715–20
- Physical Dimensions: w570 x h398 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on white laid paper
- Signed: Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower right: Francesco Bibiena Archto. inventore Giuseppe Chamant delineo.
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at upper left : Spaccato ed Alsato nel Auditorio del Teatro di Verona e sua suffitta; various inscriptions in pen and brown ink throughout.
- Exhibitions: New York - CHNDM, 18th Century Scenic & Architectural Design: Drawings by the Galli Bibiena Family, September 25-December 30, 1990.London, England - Victoria and Albert Museum, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design: Designs from the Cooper- Hewitt Collection, June 1-August 1, 1973.New York, Grolier Club, Architecture in the Theatre, October 15 - December 7, 1968.Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Drawings of the Bibiena family, January 19-February 28, 1968; travelled to New York - Finch College Museum, May 10-June 1968.American Federation of the Arts - The Baroque Ilusion, November 11, 1958 - November 11, 1961.Zanesville, OH - Art Institute, Baroque Art, April 2-May 2, 1950.
- Dimensions: 39.8 x 57 cm (15 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.)Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
- Bibliography: Mayor, A. Hyatt. The Bibiena Family (New York, NY: Bittner & Co., l945),18,35, pl. 20Wunder, Richard P. The Architect's Eye, Cooper Union Museum Chronicle 3, no. 4 (1962): 28, no. 77Kallop, Edward. Drawings and Prints Designed for Theater (New York, NY: Cooper Union Museum, 1965), 3Philadelphia Museum of Art. Drawings by the Bibiena Family. (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, l968), no. 21Wilmerding, John and Elaine Evans Dee. An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design: Designs from the Cooper- Hewitt Collection (London, UK: Victoria and Albert Museum, l973), 4Lenzi, Deanna and Anna Ottani Cavina. Architettura, Scenografia Pittura di paesaggio (Bologna, Italy: Museo Civico, l979), 116, no. 170Rigoli, Paolo and Marco Mulazzani. Un' Idea di Teatro: Il concorso nazionale per il teatro Filarmonico di Verona, 1947-1948 (Verona, Italy: Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, 1998), 20 (illus.).
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