Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling
Classification
interiors
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Accession Number
1938-88-6615
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi’s “Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling” offers a glimpse into the refined decorative ambitions of early-nineteenth-century Italy. Created between 1800 and1815, the work the artist’s long as a designer of architectural during a period whenoclassical tastes were reshaping rooms. Though the remains unidentified and research is ongoing, the drawing’s oblong format suggests a careful response to the proportions of a specific salon or gallery, where painted ceilings served both to delight the eye and to convey the patron’s cultural sophistication. Minozzi, born in 1735, ...