Design for a Freestanding Altar dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")
Artist bio: Italian, 1484–1527
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: ca. 1670–1740
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite or black chalk; two centering marks in graphite or black chalk (a ruled centered vertical line and a ruled centered horizontal line); a scale in pen and brown ink that is unnumbered at the bottom of composition
Dimensions: sheet: 18 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46 x 27.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
Accession year: 1971
Tags: Altars|Assumption of the Virgin