Design for a Ceiling with Decoration Related to Virgil's Sixth Canto
1758–1823
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow, pink, blue and green wash over traces of leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing and to other vertical lines parallels to the one on the center
Dimensions
8 x 10 5/16 in. (20.3 x 26.2 cm) irregular borders
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.65
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About the Artist
Felice Giani · 1758–1823
Died 21 January 1823. Giani was a student of C.A. Bianchi and Antonio Galli Bibiena in Pavia; from 1778 he was a student of Dom. Pedrini and Ub. Gandolfi in Bologna; from 1780 he was a student of P. Batoni, Chr. Unterberger and G. Antolini at the Academy of S. Luca in Rome.