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Sepulchral Monument for Astronomer Giovanni B. Fagiuoli
Giuseppe Barberi1795–1809
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Half sphere upon which sits a woman with telescope. A bot leaning on a lyre and a boy with a flaming cornucopia flank a sarcophagus. Inscription at front.
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- Title: Sepulchral Monument for Astronomer Giovanni B. Fagiuoli
- Creator: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date Created: 1795–1809
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on blued-white paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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