Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Medium
interiors
Classification
interiors
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Accession Number
1938-88-1640
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves by Giuseppe Barberi (, 1746–1809), ca. 1790, offers a glimpse into late 18th-century Italian design. Barberi, a prominent Roman architect, specialized in elegant furnishings and decorative schemes that blended classical motifs with emerging neoclassical tastes. These designs for bedroom alcoves—recessed sleeping niches popular in grand European homes—showcase his vision for intimate, luxurious spaces, likely rendered as precise architectural drawings or engravings. Created during a transformative era when Enlightenment ideals influenced architecture, the work...