Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Transverse Section
Object Details
- Architect
- D. Cerato, Italian
- Co-Designer
- D. Danieletti, Italian
- Description
- Drawing in shades of rose and gray of transverse section of a theater showing a large central section with a pitched roof flanked by bays with lower roof. View of five tiers of boxes topped by a shallow dome, the proscenium with curtain, and a large dark semicircular shape seen through the roofing timbers. The rose pink indicates structural supports.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1788
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-120
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on cream paper
- Dimensions
- 34 x 44.9 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in. )
- made in
- Venice, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-120
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4cfb1fe39-4683-477b-8d83-5174758aecb2
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