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Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling

Felice Giani1800–1823

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical rectangle: one quarter. outside framing border, into which circles are inserted. In corner is panel with standing and winged woman between rinceaux. Central circle with figures is surrounged by bands with decorations, outermost has tent motif. Verso: horizontally, beginning of draft: "Eminenza Reverendissima/ Il Canonico Don Andrea Mancini del Aquila avendo aquistato alcuni quadretti desidera portarli alla/ Sua Patria onde suplia L'Eminenza Vostra/ volerli concedere la necesaria licenza/ e questi quadri sono..."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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