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Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias
Cooper Hewitt

Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias

ca. 1740

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray watercolor on white laid paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Horizontal rectangle. Palaces with porticoes and colonnades at left. Statues of two centaurs (Aristens and Pappias) placed on plinths flank a low stair. At center, a tall obelisk stands with Castel Sant'Angelo behind and the Ponte Elio in the distance. Another palace, decorated with statues and a flower filled vase is at right.

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