Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a painted ceiling, viewed directly from below. The central circular decoration shows Aurora (a winged figure riding in a chariot pulled by two horses; a putto with a burning torch flies in front of her). The scene is placed within a tromp l'oeil architectural framework. At each corner, an illusionary lunette with a pointed arch contains a bust on a pedestal: Orpheus for Music, Homer for Poetry, Apelles for Painting, and Vitruvius for Architecture.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817
- Date
- 1790–1810
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Pen and brown and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 x 48.5 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. ); irregular
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
