Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Ceiling divided into 9 rectangular and 4 square compartments. Central horizontal rectangular panel shows Triumph of Peace: at left, small genii with wreathes and seated winged Victory; at center, pedestal inscribed PACE with statue of peace and altar inscribed GIANO. Behind altar stands priest, before kneel worshipping figures; at right, two females approach altar, one with basket of fruits, one with thyrsus. In four square panels within octagonal compositions are personifications (perhaps Athena) of the Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Music or Poetry.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Date
- 1812
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and dark gray ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk ruled lines on light greenish-beige wove paper. Support: light greenish-beige wove paper
- Dimensions
- 29 x 41.6 cm (11 7/16 x 16 3/8 in.)
- Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
