Alternative Design for the High Altar, Santa Maria del Priorato, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1762–64
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
label: Artist
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the High Altar of of the Prioriato while the building was still in progress, showing the apse designed by Piranesi but with some minor difference with the final executed design. At lower right, image of Carlo Marchionni explaining the design to Cardinal Rezzonico.
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: 1938-88-3497
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 black ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 67.1 x 45.9 cm (26 7/16 x 18 1/16 in.)