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This is a resource for Stamps School of Art students, especially for Drawing II.

36 Items in this Learning Collection
Marble Seat in Church S. Pietro in Castello/Venice

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Doorway to San Gregorio, Venice

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Well in Venetian Court Yard

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Rome

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St. Zeno Verona

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Azay le Rideau

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Untitled

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St. Gilles (from photograph)

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Pompeii

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Roquebrune

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Siena

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Venetian Well

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Eureaux

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Sketches of Wro't Iron work in Nurnberg Museum

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La Maison de la Reine Blanche Bourges

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Hotel de Ville, Amboise

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Pal. Riccardi Florence

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Rouen

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Braunschweig

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Trocadero Museum, Paris

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Fauteuil à sespirer pneumatique
At the right of the print, there is a line drawing of a figure seated in a large tufted chair, holding a scepter. There is a crown floating above the figure and there are stars above that. To the lower left, there is a simple drawing of a figure and a sailboat in a landscape.There is a collaged image of a lion at the center below a green tufted chair. To the right of the chair, between it and the large seated figure, is a small landscape with a figure and a cord with a plug at the end, connected to the chair. To the left at the center, there is a monogram of the artist and date. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) in pencil. 
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Two Designs for Jewelry
Two vertical designs dominate the drawing. Natural forms such as vines and other vegetal forms create designs that are symmetrical and organized around a central vertical axis.
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Designs for Jewelry: A Necklace and Earring

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A New Design for TV Chair
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
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Sketches of Seven Brackets, Two Vases, Two Capitals, a Lectern, Mascaron, Standi
Designs for bases, pitchers, capitals, lecturns, and wall brackets are scattered across the sheet. Most are quickly sketched and elaborate on the theme of scrolling designs.
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Ornamental Sketches (recto and verso)

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Sketch for the Corner of a Painted Ceiling Decoration

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The Museum of Modern Art, Wrapped (Rear), Project for New York
This print includes three seperate images and text.  At the top is a sketch in black ink of the Museum of Modern Art, wrapped in textile, with buildings behind it.  Below is a map of the area in NYC around MoMA and a photograph of MoMA, unwrapped. Handwritten labels and notes are included.
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Views of Rome. 73. So-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli. Interior With Two Fig

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Charme (Weibliche Anmut)

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Winter
In conversation with 1961/2.2 (a summer version), this painting depicts a winter scene. The painting includes trees, snow, water, mountains, a small bridge, and a small individual. The individual is wearing a backpack walking on the lower left along a trail. The water is on the lower right side. Trees take up about 2/3 of the scene, appearing alongside the path as well as in the mountains. The higher up the mountains go, the more barren and snowier they get. At the top right is an inscription in black and red ink. The painting is framed with a dark green flower-patterned cloth. The top and bottom of the painting are also lined with a different lighter brown cloth. 
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Lion Attacking a Horse (recto), Study of a Seated Woman in a Landscape (verso)

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Elevation and Ground Plan of a Small Temple

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Stage Set: Courtyards with Staircases
An intricate series of arches, stairs, and balustrades are presented obliquely. The deepest recession into space is at the center of the design. Seen from a low vantage point, the soaring columns and arcades create the illusion of deep space.
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Rome / San Lorenzo

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Palazzo Vecchio Florence

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Stage Set: Courtyards with Staircases

Accession Number
1957/2.2

Title
Stage Set: Courtyards with Staircases

Artist(s)
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Object Creation Date
1696-1757

Medium & Support
ink and wash

Dimensions
6 7/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. ( 17.5 cm x 23.2 cm )

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
Gallery Rotation Spring 2013
Attributed to Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
Italy, 1696–1757
Stage set: Courtyards with Staircases
1696–1757
Ink and wash
Museum purchase, 1957/2.2
An intricate stage set design is represented in this drawing attributed to Giuseppe Bibiena. The fictive, grand scale architecture is presented in a symmetrical composition with multiple perspectives running at angles to the picture plane. The space appears to be divided into four courtyards that meet at the center of the stage, each articulated by groups of Corinthian columns supporting rounded arches with elaborate bases and upper railings. Whereas the adjacent Barberi drawings present the façades of churches with little information about the spaces that lie beyond, Bibiena’s drawing articulates a three dimensional space delineated by the rationally ordered arrangement of architectural forms. Though fictive in nature, the precise rendering of Bibiena’s stage set design gives the impression that it is a very real structure.

Subject matter
Bibiena created a number of stage designs and this drawing of a couryard framed by arcades, elevated walkways, and stairs would provide a spectacular--if not believable--backdrop for a drama.

Physical Description
An intricate series of arches, stairs, and balustrades are presented obliquely. The deepest recession into space is at the center of the design. Seen from a low vantage point, the soaring columns and arcades create the illusion of deep space.

Primary Object Classification
Drawing

Primary Object Type
architectural drawing

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Architecture
columns
courtyards
stair

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