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Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Orazio Samacchini (d. 1577)

1532–77 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on blue-green paper

Study for the Allegory of Religion

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (d. 1669)

1629–39 · Red chalk, glued onto a light cardboard mount

Study for a Ceiling Decoration: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Female Head (verso)

Giacinto Brandi (d. 1691)

1680 · Red chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper (recto); red chalk study of a female head (verso)

Study of an Urn; Study for the Frieze Decoration around the Urn

Edward Pierce (Pearce) II (d. 1700)

ca. 1690 · Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk; stencilled gold border

Study for a Ceiling Decoration

Ercole Procaccini The Younger (d. 1680)

1600–1699 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over charcoal (?) and leadpoint (?) ruled lines

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Carlo Alberto Baratta (d. 1815)

1754–1815 · Brush with gray wash and gouache, highlighted with white and traces of light yellow, partly over traces of black chalk, on blue-green prepared paper, now faded

Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique

Thomas Couture (d. 1879)

ca. 1857 · Black chalk on blue paper mounted on cardboard

Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room

Frederic, Lord Leighton (d. 1896)

ca. 1886 · Oil and gold on canvas

Study for Ceiling Decoration

Kenyon Cox (d. 1919)

ca. 1894 · Graphite on off-white laid paper for transfer

Study for the decoration of the vaulting of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma with two female figures holding amphorae on their heads

Hendrik van der Borcht II (d. 1690)

1637 · Etching

Chronicle of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of Cooper Union, Vol. I, No.4

Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

April 1938