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Africa, Design for a Pendentive in the Baptismal Vestibule of St. Peter’s, Rome
Francesco Trevisani (Italian, 1656 - 1746)
1713–26
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, traces of black chalk on white laid paper
- Classification
- Interior views
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 33.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
A seated figure with an elephant headdress holds a scorpion. A lion at the right.
