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The Lupercalian Festivals
Felice Giani1821–22
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Upper drawing, male figure in classical dress at center, with robe billowing behind him, rushing past smoking altar. Figure at right dancing. In background figures visible through smoke. Lower drawing figure in classical armor, apparently Romulus, at right directing ploughman with two oxen. Other figures at left removing(or setting) stones and timbers.
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- Title: The Lupercalian Festivals
- Creator: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Date Created: 1821–22
- 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, over traces of black chalk on white heavy wove paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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