Design for a Monument for Pope Pius VI
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A platform, reached by a stair, supports a tall monument that has a blank tablet. Above, a vase-like sarcophagus with a portrait of the pope in a medallion, is surrounded by papal attributes: cross-staff, crozier, mitre and two angels. Lit candles in a candelabra rests on the floor.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1799
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-1368
- Artist
- Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on off white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 59.7 x 33.8 cm (23 1/2 x 13 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-1368
