Idea

Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Design for Windlass mounted on Boats
to raise a Column from the Sea
ca. 1475-80
drawing
(manuscript leaf: Opusculum de Architectura)
British Museum

Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Design for Underwater Harbor Defense
ca. 1475-80
drawing
(manuscript leaf: Opusculum de Architectura)
British Museum

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
Proposed Design for the Trevi Fountain in Rome
1731
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Guillaume-Thomas Taraval
Design for Festival Architecture
before 1750
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mauro Antonio Tesi after Stefano della Bella
Designs for Vases and Urns
ca. 1750
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Elevation of a Catafalque for a General
before 1766
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

attributed to Mauro Antonio Tesi
Quadratura Design
before 1766
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Design for temporary Holy Week Altar
before 1766
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Louis-Gustave Taraval
Design for Church Façade
with Allegorical Figure of Faith
ca. 1768
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Louis-Gustave Taraval
Design for Classical Temple
ca. 1780
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joseph Chinard
Sketch Design for Clock Case with Couple flanking Stele
before 1813
terracotta
Musée du Louvre

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Design for Britannia over Doorway
1813
(ink and watercolor on paper)
British Museum

Ferdinand Hodler
Woodcutter
ca. 1908-1910
drawing
(design study for Swiss banknote) 
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Duncan Grant
The Queen of Sheba
(design for dinner plate)
ca. 1922
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Hunt Diederich
Design for Stair-Rail with Greyhounds
ca. 1923
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Smith
Untitled (study for sculpture)
1961
spray enamel over stencil on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

David Smith
Untitled (study for sculpture)
1963
tempera and spraypaint over stencil on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Epitaph

Here I –

               What does

the name matter?

from –

            Who cares?

of good family –

Oh? Then scum –

and decent habits –

or the profligate

meet with worse?

am laid in earth:

               this stone

tells my story.

And who listens?

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Andrew Miller