Design for a Main Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1746-1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the center of the retable is a picture, probably of the ascending Virgin. On top of it and in front of the entablature are two angels supporting a wreath. On either side are two projecting columns. Above the entablature are laterally statues of sitting women supporting a medallion. The left one is supporting also a cross. In the center is a tablet with an inscription and on to p a triangular pediment with above two kneeling angels beside a cross. The mensa has the shape of a tub sarcophagus, with two supports. The tabernacle stands upon the furniture and in front of the central panel of the zone with the pedestals. Laterally stand upon tripartite circular pedestals, having a festoon in the central part, a statue of a saint, with an angel sitting beside. Colored background.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1376
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 x 18.9 cm (10 1/8 x 7 7/16 in.)