Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Classification
architecture, interiors
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Museum purchase through gift of various donors
Accession Number
1901-39-1326
About this artwork
An ornate mantelpiece, decorated with sculpted reliefs of lion heads and scrolls, occupies the center of the design. A carved frame, supported by pilasters and ornamented with garlands, rosettes, and griffins terminates in a triangular pediment. The overmantel contains an antique bust of Antinous in profile lightly drawn in graphite. Flanking the mantelpiece are two men. On the right, a man who seems to be of humble origins, accompanied by a dog, crouches, holding wooden planks. On the left, a w...