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Quarter Plan for a Coved Ceiling

Antenore Ridolfi (d. 1575)

ca. 1561 · Pen and brown ink, brush and two shades of brown and gray wash, and turquoise and green watercolor, over traces of red chalk

Design for a Quarter of a Ceiling with Grotesque Decorations

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)

17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush with light brown wash, watercolor

Quarter of a Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling Decoration

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)

17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and red-brown and gold watercolor, over graphite

Design for Section of a Rococo Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway

Thomas Lightoler (d. 1775)

ca. 1750 · Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash and yellow watercolor

One Quarter Design for a Painted Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi (d. 1766)

1730–66 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Design for the Decoration of the Window Door Wall of a Rococo Room with a Coved Ceiling and Coved Central Fanlight (Section)

Thomas Lightoler (d. 1775)

mid-18th century · Pen and ink, brush and wash

Design for a Quarter of Stucco Ceiling

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)

1700–1780 · Pen and gray ink, over black chalk, with ruled and compass construction; some dotted and some continuous framing lines in pen and gray ink over black chalk

Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)

1700–1780 · Pen and dark brown ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite or leadpoint, with ruled construction; scales, at bottom, in pen and brown ink

Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)

1700–1780 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled and compass construction

One Quarter of a Design for a Painted Ceiling (recto); Ornaments (verso)

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)

1700–1780 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint, with ruled and compass construction (recto); architectural drawing in leadpoint (verso)

Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling Decoration

Leonardo Marini (d. 1797)

1730–97 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite, with ruled and compass construction

Ceiling Design with a Recessed Rectangular Section and a Trompe-l'Oeil Oculus, from Nouveau Liure de Placfond, part of Œuvres du Sr. D. Marot

Daniel Marot the Elder (d. 1752)

published 1703 or 1712 · Etching