Ceiling Design with Grotesques

A pen and brown ink drawing with wash shows a decorative ceiling layout divided into panels of scrolling foliage, garlands, candelabra-like forms and winged grotesque figures. A small framed scene of figures appears at upper left, and a crouching winged creature sits at lower right among ornament.

Look closer: A small winged creature crouches among the ornament at the lower right.

Artist

Antonio Liverani

Date

19th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2861 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 2000