(Italian Cultural Gardens Medallions), (sculpture)

Object Details

Notes: Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1993.; Image on file.; (On left panel, incised lettering:) (Across top:) ARTS AND LETTERS/(Beneath portrait medallions:) (Left:) GIOTTO/1266-1337/(Center:) MICHELANGELO/1475-1564/(Right:) PETRARCA/1304-1374 (On right panel, incised lettering:) (Across top:) ARTS AND SCIENCES/(Beneath portrait medallions:) (Left:) VERDI/1813-1901/(Center:) DA VINCI/1452-1519/(Right:) MARCONI/1874-1937; The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Summary: Two bas-relief panels, each with three portrait bust medallions of noted Italians, on either side of a stone wall. On the left panel, in proper right profile are, from left to right: Giotto, with a head covering; Michelangelo, with beard and moustache; Petrarca, with a head covering and crowned with a laurel. On the right panel, in proper left profile are, from left to right: Verdi, with a beard and moustache; Da Vinci, with a full beard and moustache, wearing a cap; Marconi, with a collar and tie. The panels flank a central concave niche with lion's head fountain.

sculptor: Unknown
Subject: Giotto; Buonarroti, Michelangelo; Petrarca; Verdi, Giuseppe; Leonardo da Vinci; Marconi, Guglielmo

Type: Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture; Sculptures-Medallion; Sculptures-Architectural component; Sculptures

Owner/Location: Administered by City of Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation, and Property 500 Lakeside Drive Cleveland Ohio 44114; Located Rockefeller Park Italian Cultural Garden, Martin Luther King Boulevard Cleveland Ohio

Topic: Portrait male--Bust; Ethnic; Allegory--Arts & Sciences--Literature; Allegory--Arts & Sciences--Science; Occupation--Art--Sculptor; Occupation--Art--Architect; Occupation--Art--Painter; Occupation--Writer--Poet; Occupation--Science--Inventor; Occupation--Science--Physicist; Performing Arts--Music--Composer