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Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634 - 1705)
ca. 1700
- Medium
- Red crayon, blotted and wash, pen and ink on paper
- Classification
- Ornaments
- Dimensions
- 21 × 22.7 cm (8 1/4 × 8 15/16 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
Four female figures with flowing robes support the circular medallion at center. Two of the figures are below, and two are on either side of the medallion. Three winged putti support the medallion on the left. On the medallion is a tower between two stars.
