Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1640–50
name: label: Designer
content: Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650
label: Artist
content: Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of an altar. The left half is shown. The Crucifixion is in the center of the retable. In the outside compartment is a niche with the statue of a woman. Reliefs are in the dado. Broken pediment with angels upon the cornice.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1469
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and bistre, brush and wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16.8 × 8.8 cm (6 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.)