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Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican
Tommaso Concaca. 1782
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design for a ceiling. The octagonal design is divided into four principal panels separated by steeply foreshortened architectural columns. Four groups of figures are depicted that deal with Apollo, the muses and the poets.
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- Title: Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican
- Creator: Tommaso Maria Conca
- Creator Lifespan: 1734/1822
- Date Created: ca. 1782
- Physical Dimensions: w425 x h413 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite on heavy cream paper
- Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee;Giovanni Piancastelli
- Paper Support: Heavy cream laid paper
- Inscribed: Verso in graphite in a later hand: Conca/Ceiling of the Room of the Muses in the Vatican/ R.G.[?]
- Exhibitions: Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, March 16 - 28 May, 2000. traveling to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX - June 25 - September 17, 2000CHM, Perspectives: The Illusion of Space, 25 Nov, 1968 - 1 Mar 1987New York, NY - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists in Rome in the 18th Century, 1978. no.13Crosscurrents, 1978 [see Related Exhibitions]
- Dimensions: 41.3 x 42.5cm (16 1/4 x 16 3/4in.)Mat: 22 x 28 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.)
- Bibliography: Bowron, Edgar Peters and Joseph J. Rishel. Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. (Philadelphia and London: Merrell, 2000)Bernard, Catherine. Crosscurrrents: French and Italian Neoclassical drawings and prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. (Washington: D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978), no. 34, p.48-50 (illus. p.49)
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