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Wall Decoration, Domus Aurea, Rome
Vincenzo Brenna1776–77
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design for a wall decoration. View of red colored wall with grotesques above a rendering of a marble wall with inlaid squares and circles. Grotesque motif consists of open framework compartments surmounted with figures at left and right and draped material at center.
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- Title: Wall Decoration, Domus Aurea, Rome
- Creator: Vincenzo Brenna, Italian, 1745 – 1820, Franciszek Smugliewicz, 1745 – 1807
- Date Created: 1776–77
- Location Created: Rome, Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Brush and gouache, watercolor, over etching trimmed to the plate mark
- Credit line: Gift of Peter W. Josten
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