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Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents
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Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

1725

Medium

Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink. Four sections of paper, two center parts joined together

Tags

ShieldsSwordsHuman Figures

Dimensions

57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in. (145.6 x 52.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

1675–1741 • Republic of Venice

Comment on works: Allegory; History; Figures; Decorative

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