Museum Exhibition

Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Tavarone, Lazzaro

A Ceiling Decoration with Landscapes and Battles

c. 1620

pen, brown ink, watercolor and black chalk on laid paper

overall: 38.6 x 37.8 cm (15 3/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Featured works

Kern, Anton

1740s

watercolor, pen and gray ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper

overall: 34.1 x 44.4 cm (13 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Giani, Felice

c. 1787

pen and brown ink with gray, blue, and pink washes over black chalk on wove paper

overall: 34.9 x 27 cm (13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)

Ferrari, Lorenzo De

c. 1700/1710

black chalk on laid paper

sheet: 29.1 × 20.8 cm (11 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.)

Bibiena, Ferdinando Galli

1720/1740

pen and brown ink with gray and brown washes over graphite on laid paper

overall: 60.1 x 105.9 cm (23 11/16 x 41 11/16 in.)

Canuti, Domenico Maria

c. 1669

charcoal and white heightening on tan paper

overall: 43 x 29.2 cm (16 15/16 x 11 1/2 in.)

28 documented works in this exhibition