Design for a Fountain

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

German 13.01, Beyond Good and Evil, Heidi Denzel, Fall 2024

History 3.01, Europe in the Age of Wonder, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2024

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2024

Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Matteo Gilebbi, Fall 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Matteo Gilebbi, Fall 2024

History 42.01, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender and European Society, Patrick Meehan, Winter 2025

History 44.02, Arts of Power, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Winter 2025

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2025

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2025

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2025

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Naomi Perego, Winter 2025

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2025

Conversations and Connections: "Living with Sculpture" with Living Sculptors, Summer 2024

Living with Sculpture Colloquium, Fall 2024

Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Class of 1968 Tour, Fall 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.

Publication History

Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Ashley B. Offill, Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400-1750, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, distributed by Penn State University Press, 2024.

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