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Study for an Oval Ceiling Design: "Apollo, Strength, and Love"
Fedele Fischetti1760–89
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Apollo raises a torch. Strength supports a column and holds her left hand with a sword over a fire. Love has a fire on her forehead and is accompanied by a dog and putti carrying burning hearts. The figures are seated on clouds. More putti are in attendance.
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- Title: Study for an Oval Ceiling Design: "Apollo, Strength, and Love"
- Creator: Fedele Fischetti
- Creator Lifespan: 1734/1789
- Date Created: 1760–89
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brush and black ink, gray wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper
- Paper Support: off white laid paper
- Markings: CM stamps in brown lower center.Brandigee stamp. LL
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Dr. 12Lower left, in graphite, partially obliterated inscription: Fidele Fischetti
- Exhibitions: New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," February 4 - March 20, 1970.
- Dimensions: 36 x 24.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.), irregular
- Bibliography: Elaine Evans Dee, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," exhibition catalog (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) p. 35, no. 64 (illus.).
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