id: 301738 accession number: 2017.104 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.104 updated: 2022-01-04 18:06:59.189000 The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling, c. 1675-76. Domenico Maria Canuti (Italian, 1625-1684). Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, with perspectival indications; sheet: 24 x 37.7 cm (9 7/16 x 14 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2017.104 title: The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1675-76 creation date earliest: 1675 creation date latest: 1676 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, with perspectival indications department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Domenico Maria Canuti (Italian, 1625-1684) - artist Italian painter, 1625-1684 --- measurements: Sheet: 24 x 37.7 cm (9 7/16 x 14 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Lower right, in black ink: Pietro da Cortona; watermark: Orsini Arms translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.104/2017.104_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.104/2017.104_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.104/2017.104_full.tif