Artworks · Felice Giani, Italian

Four Vases

1790 · classicism, drawing — black crayon on paper

H x W: 27.2 × 20.7 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Killing of Cesare

1790 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

20.9 x 21.1 cm (8 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Chimney Pieces, Furniture and Ceiling Medallion

1790 · furniture, drawing — pen and brown ink on laid paper

H x W: 20.1 × 18.9 cm (7 15/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Achilles Yields Briseis

1790 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on light blue laid paper

24.1 x 29 cm (9 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ulysesses Discovers Achilles in Scyros

1790 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on light blue laid paper

24.7 x 28.5 cm (9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector

1790 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink on light blue laid paper

23.4 x 28.6 cm (9 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Orpheus, Ceres, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

10.8 x 18.6 cm (4 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Man the Farmer, Diana the Goddess of the Hunt, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Vulcan, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and bistre wash over black chalk on rolled paper

11.8 x 9.3 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Pales, Triptolemus, Decoration for a Vault, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and bistre wash over black chalk on laid paper

10.9 x 17.6 cm (4 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Bacchus, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and bistre wash over black chalk on laid paper

12 x 9.3 cm (4 3/4 x 3 11/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and bistre wash over black chalk on laid paper

10.8 x 18 cm (4 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Man the Hunter, Man the Shepherd, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

1787 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

10.5 x 18.7 cm (4 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Project for Wall Paintings, as Decoration of a Frieze

1785 · architecture, interiors, drawing — pen and ink, brush and sepia wash over traces of graphite on light-green laid paper

15.1 x 23 cm (5 15/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Study of Five Vases or Urns

1785 · Pen and gray ink, brush and brown wash, over freehand graphite and ruling, borders in blue wash

14 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (37.4 x 46 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for the Artist’ Sepulchral Monument

1782 · classicism, drawing — charcoal on paper

H x W: 25.8 × 18.6 cm (10 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Frieze with Bacchantes

1780 · architecture, interiors, drawing — black chalk, graphite on off white laid paper

19.5 x 17.5 cm (7 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter

1780 · architecture, interiors, drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

27.7 x 40.3 cm (10 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Triumph of Galatea

1780 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk on white laid paper; framing lines in black chalk

18.8 x 21.8 cm (7 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philactetes Applies the Torch of Hercules to the Funeral Pyre

1780 · figures, drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on light blue laid paper

17.5 x 20.8 cm (6 7/8 x 8 3/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Decorative Project with Prudence in Oval

1780 · architecture, interiors, drawing — pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

18.4 x 14.2 cm (7 1/4 x 5 9/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling with a Central Circular Decoration

1775 · ornament, drawing — pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on cream yellow laid paper

19.2 x 16.7 cm (7 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Four Columns to Italian Renaissance Writers

1775 · ornament, drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of graphite on light brown laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

An Artist and His Model

1773 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on gray-brown washed paper

17-1/2 x 12-1/16 in. (44.4 x 30.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frieze with Dolphins and Putto

1770 · architecture, interiors, drawing — black chalk on off white laid paper

22.5 x 12.6 cm (8 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for a Ceiling

1760 · Graphite, pen and ink with brown wash

9 7/16 x 10 9/16 in. (23.9 x 26.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

1758 · figures, drawing — pen and ink, brush and brown- grey wash on paper

33.5 x 43.8 cm (13 3/16 x 17 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for the Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling of a 'Gabinetto' related to Virgil's Fourth Canto

1758 · Pen and brown ink, brush and pink, yellow, orange and blue-green wash, over leadpoint

11 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (29.7 x 20.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two sculptures on pedestals

1758 · Brown pen and ink and wash

sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 11/16 in. (39 x 52.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Ceiling with Decoration Related to Virgil's Sixth Canto

1758 · Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow, pink, blue and green wash over leadpoint; vertical line in leadpoint through the center to create the symmetry of the drawing and to other vertical lines parallels to the one on the center

8 x 10 5/16 in. (20.3 x 26.2 cm) irregular borders

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vaulted Ceiling with Alternative Designs

1750 · drawing — pen and ink over traces of graphite on greyish laid paper

30.2 x 42.5 cm (11 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Polyphemus Throwing Boulders at the Fleeing Aeis and Galatea (recto); Polyphemus Playing His Reed Pipes for Galatea (verso)

1632 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over touches of black chalk (recto and verso), on ivory laid paper

13.1 × 22.4 cm (5 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sinan Reis and Hayreddin Barbarossa

1525 · Tempera on canvas

66.5 × 63.7 cm (26 3/16 × 25 1/16 in.); Framed: 73.7 × 71.2 × 5.1 cm (29 × 28 × 2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bust of Seneca

1500 · Marble and porphyry

H.: 96.5 cm (38 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Casket

1100 · Ivory, brass, tempera, and gold leaf

9.5 × 15.9 × 9.7 cm (3 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Drawing

drawing — pen and brush with black ink on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink with brown wash (iron gall ink)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink with brown wash (iron gall ink)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink with brown wash (iron gall ink) and traces of graphite

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brush with black ink on cream laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Drawing

drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on light brown laid paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum