Design for a Church Festival Setting
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1700
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle, design partially incomplete at upper left. Two stairs lead up to an apse of complicated plan and elevation. Further stairs lead up to an exedra in this apse. The Virgin Mary surrounded by figures is seated in it and looks in reverence toward the monstrance, which is exposed in a glory of light and angels, on the ceiling. Further figures are shown upon and beside the stairs. Verso: part of an architectural plan.
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: 1938-88-544
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: Brush and gray watercolor, black chalk on laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 54.7 × 37.5 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/4 in.)