Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, A variation of the scheme of -1532, the lower part of the arch at left shows one half of a panel as shown at right. A woman sits in front of it raising her right hand holding indistinct objects. The oblong panel at right shows a sphere standing below a festoon. Two women, shown from the back, are seated beside the shaft of the sphere, the left one is shown. Landscape in ruins. Putti are in wedges of the arch. Two putti support a medallion

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