Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents — Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents, 1725. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Design for a Ceiling: Allegories of the Four Continents

by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

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Artist: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, Venice 1675–1741 Venice)
Date: 1725
Medium: Brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead; framing lines in pen and black ink; four sections of paper, two center parts joined together
Dimensions: 57-5/16 x 20-9/16 in. (145.6 x 52.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
Accession no.: 59.208.107

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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