Design for a Fountain
Giovanni Giardini, Italian, 1646 - 1722
1714
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (39.1 × 26 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edgar and Katherine Seeler
PR.953.68
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 86 from Disegni diversi inventati e delineati da Giovanni Giardini da Forlí. etc. Parte Prima (Various Designs invented and engraved by Giovanni Giardini of Forlí, Part One)
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in plate, lower left: Ioan Giardini inven. et delin.; lower right: Maxi Ioseph Limpach sculp. Romae; upper left: NO. 86.
Label
The Roman printmaker and designer Giovanni Giardini published books of designs for devotional objects, fine metalwork, and public monuments that could be adapted by sculptors in three dimensions. His engraving of a public fountain lacks any context of place or scale, suggesting that it could be transformed as needed in its translation into space. Giardini’s designs rely on scrolling foliage, putti, shells, sweeping curves, and other common forms of ornament that could be applied by sculptors to any number of functional objects.
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
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