Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli
Object Details
- Architect
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- In a landscape with a citadel rising in the background at right, a monument stands upon a pedestal of three oval plinths. The monument is an urn surrounded by a group of three Gods: Apollo (at right, holding a lyre), Tiber (at left, holding a spear), and Minerva (in center, holding a laurel wreath). The gods are bestowing honors upon the bust atop the urn. The bust is inscribed with "CORILLA", and the urn with INPROVISO/ SI.BENE.CHE./ FU.CORONATA./ IN/ CAMPIDOGLIO".
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- after 1795
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-280
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on beige laid paper
- Dimensions
- 21.2 x 29.4 cm (8 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
- made in
- 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_1901-39-280
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq497f36920-209a-4ea9-b9fc-569795b28ace
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