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Drawing, Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling
This is a Drawing. It was architect: Francesco Galli Bibiena and drafted by Jean-Joseph Chamant. It is dated 1715–20 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
bequest of
Erskine Hewitt.
It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- Drawing, Theater Design for a Dining Room
- pen and black, brown ink, brush and light brown wash, rose watercolor on....
- Museum purchase from Friends of Drawings and Prints Fund.
- 1975-42-1
![A graphite drawing on white tracing paper, for multiple iterations, of a three-quarter view of an interior of a theater. A built installation shows the multiple stepped stage on the left having a gently curved outer platform in the center that juts out into an extreme curve on the right supporting an elliptical glass enclosed booth bearing a flat roof with two people inside. The above architecture reflects the round curves of the booth with built in designs on two levels where the drawing employs value shading to show the illusion of volume, depth and realism with high open space between the ceiling and said design. The adjacent wall displays a sketch of a large, high archway and the beginning of another to the right with less detail. The round curved built-in design meets an intersecting low wall with rounded left edge overlapping the right stage edge and is articulated with [CBS] letters atop and a [C] on the wall with outstretched arms inclusive of [ON THE AIR] in the top arm, and [STAND BY] in the bottom arm with a round clock in the inner curvature of the [C]. Returning to the inner stage, we are met with a built-in back wall that curves inward on the top and meets with a dropped ceiling consisting of several planks parallel to the ceiling with spaces in between. A rectangular built awning placed on an upward slant is placed outward from the planks. One can speculate as to the function of this configuration. Writing is apparent on the lower left of the image: [#398 sign 30] in a circle [37] with two words beneath that are illegible. The drawing has a small rip on the lower left edge and possible tape damage on the bottom right. [3-55-9874] is written in the lower left corner.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/57284_9bdda8553b939de0_n.jpg "Drawing, Design for Alteration of the Avon Theater")
- Drawing, Design for Alteration of the Avon Theater
- graphite on white tracing paper.
- Gift of William E. Lescaze.
- 1937-37-5
- Drawing, Theater Design: A Town Square
- pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, blue, pale rose watercolor on white....
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-50
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- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper,....
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1938-57-1413
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- Drawing, Pianta del Teatro Reale di Napoli Denominato di San Carlo [Ground...
- pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-97
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- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on two sheets of....
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-118
Its dimensions are
39.8 x 57 cm (15 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
It is signed
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Francesco Bibiena Archto. inventore Giuseppe Chamant delineo.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at upper left : Spaccato ed Alsato nel Auditorio del Teatro di Verona e sua suffitta; various inscriptions in pen and brown ink throughout.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling; Architect: Francesco Galli Bibiena (Italian, 1659 - 1739); Drafted by Jean-Joseph Chamant (French, 1699–1768); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper; 39.8 x 57 cm (15 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1938-57-1443
