Design for a Tabernacle
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: Below are the moldings of the altar furniture. The tabernacle has the shape of a building. Seen from its left corner. Below is a dado. The central part is bordered by a convex semi-circle with six free columns and a cupola. Inside is a group of figures. The lateral panels contain a niche with a statue. Above the upper entablature are on either side two figures, in the center are two angels upon clouds, in adoration of a central motif.
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: 1938-88-1387
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: 27 x 18.6 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)