Plate 5: view of the ceiling with its ornaments and frescoed paintings
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 10 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (27 × 37.9 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.658.27(5)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 1756 etching captures richly ornamented ceiling, its elaborate frescoes and decorative rendered with precise line work typical of architectural prints. Created through the collaborative efforts of Pellegrino Tibaldi, whose original designs likely inspired the composition, along with etchers Angelo Carboni, Bartolomeo Crivellari, and Giampietro Zanotti, the plate documents the grandeur of Italian ceiling decoration. As part of the ornament and architecture genre, such prints served as valuable records for artists, architects, and patrons seeking to study or replicate intricate interior sch...