Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780–90
name: label: Designer
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The mensa, altar stone, stands in the center of a sockle part, upon which a second sockle row stands. A small tabernacle stands in front of it, containing in its central part a reliquary shrine. The retable has the shape of an arch, which is flanked by three embedded columns on either side supporting the entablature and the broken pediment. Figures sit upon the cornices. Two angels support an ovoid with the dove in front of the central part, upon the entablature of which two more sit. Cherubims are on top of the ovoid. A small angel sits under it.
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: 1938-88-497
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 gray wash, black chalk, streak of brown chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 32.4 × 20.5 cm (12 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)