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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Head of a dolphin

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pen and brown wash design for a ceiling with circular medallions, winged putti, garlands and coffered panels.

Design for an Oblong Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds surrounded by angels and putti within an oval.

Design for a Ceiling with the Ascension of the Virgin

Francesco Trevisani, 1700

Pencil sketch of a Siena cathedral interior with inlaid marble floor, pulpit, Gothic arches, and a fresco of robed figures.

Notes of the Duomo Choir, Siena, Italy

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Ink and wash elevation drawing of an ornamented interior wall with a central doorway, oval medallions and an arched cornice.

Elevation, End Wall of the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink and wash drawing of a winged figure representing Virgo within a semicircular lunette, with clouds and handwritten notes.

Virgo, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Colorful watercolor design of ceiling panels with star patterns, rosettes, acanthus leaves and floral garlands.

Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria

Friedrich von Schmidt, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of two neoclassical wall panel designs, one with a tree between seated figures and a landscape medallion

Designs for a Wall Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a tall rococo wall panel with scrollwork, foliage, garlands and a bird among shells.

Carved Decoration for a Wall Panel

P. Ludovik, 1730

Pencil drawing of three winged putti playing tambourines and trumpets within an arched architectural frame.

Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a draped canopy bed alcove with a standing figure in a plumed hat at the right.

Bed Alcove with a Figure

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and brown wash drawing of a saint ascending among clouds, surrounded by angels and putti.

Apotheosis of a Saint

Corrado Giaquinto, 1740

Watercolor of a domed hall with crowds in academic gowns and red robes, galleries above, and a painted ceiling.

Encaenia in the Sheldonia

Thomas Uwins, 1810

Brown wash design drawing of a fireplace mantelpiece with carved putti reliefs, garlands, and pilasters.

Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of rococo ceiling ornament with scrolls, garlands, putti and architectural moldings on a pale sheet.

Project for a Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged youth riding a rearing ram within a semicircular lunette composition.

Ares, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash design drawing of three decorative wall panels with niches, trees, garlands, and small landscape scenes.

Design for the Decorations of a Wall Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design with oval portrait of bearded Henry IV in armor, flanked by two putti holding fruit garlands above a coat o

Henry IV

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Split architectural drawing of an altar screen with Corinthian columns, a pediment, and a central arched niche.

Elevation of Altar Screen

François Boucher, 1770

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a columned bed alcove with draped curtains and a coffered ceiling in perspective.

Design for a Bed Alcove, Perspective

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown ink drawing of a lunette ceiling vault with winged figures, medallions and borders, plus a small bedroom sketch

Ceiling Vault Decoration, Camera da Letto, Sala di Cornelia di Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Grey wash drawing of an oval ceiling design with a radiant sun god holding a torch, reclining figures, and cherubs among clou

Study for an Oval Ceiling Design, Apollo, Strength, and Love

Fedele Fischetti, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a low dome with ribbed panels and a classical frieze of rosettes and palmettes above a cornice.

Decoration for low dome of a room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash design for a dome fresco showing clouds, angels, saints and putti above painted arched windows.

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1780

Pen and grey wash design for a coffered ceiling with a central frieze of horsemen and winged figures in square panels.

Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and ink elevation drawing of a room's walls with shuttered windows, paneled doors, medallions and a decorative frieze.

Elevation of a Room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Colored drawing of an ornate classical ceiling design with medallions, garlands, scrollwork, and figures in red, blue and gol

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli

Luigi Rossini, 1820

Brown ink drawing of Numa Pompilius seated with the nymph Egeria in a rocky grotto landscape within an oval frame.

Numa Pompilius and Egeria, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash design for a wall with arches, pilasters, hanging garlands, draped curtains and candelabra.

Design for Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor of an ornate interior wall with a central door, sculptural pediment, painted urns and garlands, and a console tabl

Section of wall, bedroom of Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880