The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling

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The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling

Domenico Maria CanutiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f41b74049763

Date
c. 1675–76
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, with perspectival indications
Culture
Italy
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
301738

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Domenico Maria Canuti made this design for a quadratura ceiling fresco in preparation for a commission at the Palazzo Altieri in Rome. Quadratura describes painting in which architectural elements are painted to appear to be part of the real architectural setting. Canuti focused on establishing the visual coherence between the figures, portraying the deification of Rome’s founder, and the painted architecture by drawing perspective lines at 90-degree and 45-degree angles. The perfectly rendered 24-point stars at the edge of the painted architecture were emblems of the Altieri family.

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Credit line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance
The 'Sagredo-Borghese' album (L. 2103a), with associated inscriptions 'Pietro da Cortona' (recto) and 'S. R. [Scuola Romano] n?. 110' (verso) | 1743: Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice, to his wife Cecilia Sagredo, by whom sold circa 1743 | 1919: Private collection, Lyon, from which sold circa 1919 | July 8, 2008: [Christie's, Anonymous Sale, London, England], July 8, 2008, lot 39 | July 5, 2017: [Christie's, London, England], July 5, 2017, lot 29, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | September 11, 2017–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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