Designs for Ceiling Decorations, with Plan of Spectators' Room of a Theater, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, A) At left: an octagonal attic frame is inscribed into an oblong, with a view of the sky. Arches of garlands support an oval garland, in which a putto flies. At right: in the center is a circular wreath supported by two putti. It is inscribed into an octagon as are above and below shell-like forms. Tangent to the octagonal frame are half-circles with figures of putti.

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