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Theatro Filarmonico of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, Italy, Auditorium and Main Entrance Elevation
Francesco Galli Bibiena1715–20
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Overhead view of a plan of an auditorium.
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- Title: Theatro Filarmonico of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, Italy, Auditorium and Main Entrance Elevation
- Creator: Francesco Galli Bibiena
- Creator Lifespan: 1659/1739
- Date Created: 1715–20
- Physical Dimensions: w405 x h572 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper, laid down
- Signed: Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower right: Francesco Bibiena Archt: Inventore + Giuseppe
- Provenance: Bequest of Erskin Hewitt
- Paper Support: White laid paper, laid down
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at upper center: Pianta del auditorio nel Teatro di Verona; and also various inscriptions in pen and black ink throughout.[....che fomia da V a X La larghessa della prima Strada m[isura] P[iedi] 4.62 da X a V. La seconda misura P[iedi] 4.42/ ogui strada un oncia e messa c
- Exhibitions: Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts, Designed for Theater, October 16, 1984 - January, 6, 1985.New York - Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts, [Satellite Exhibition], October 1-November 1, 1976.New York, Grolier Club, Architecture in the Theatre, October 15 - December 7, 1968.Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Drawings of the Bibiena family, January 19-February 28, 1968; traveled to New York - Finch College Museum, May 10-June 1968.Providence, RI -Rhode Island School of Design, History of Theatrical Design, April 24-May 22, 1957.Zanesville, OH - Art Institute, Baroque Art, April 2-May 2, 1950.
- Dimensions: 57.2 x 40.5 cm (22 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.)Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
- Bibliography: Matteucci, A.M. and D. Lenzi. C.Morelli, Architetto (Bologna, Italy: University Press, l977), 180Lenzi, Deanna and Anna Ottani Cavina. Architettura, Scenografia Pittura di paesaggio (Bologna, Italy: Museo Civico, l979), 155, fig. 143, no. 169Rigoli, Paolo and Marco Mulazzani. Un' Idea di Teatro: Il concorso nazionale per il teatro Filarmonico di Verona, 1947-1948 (Verona, Italy: Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, 1998), 20 (illus.).
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