Design for a Bishop's Catafalque
date: label: Date
content: 1710–40
name: label: Designer
content: Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architectural drawing. Only the left half of the tower visible. The tower consists of an oblong room with a balcony (in the middle of the entablature), a high candelabrum with lamps and three lamps of small sizes in left corner. The plan of the tower is hexagonal. In front of its first section above, the dado is shown, an ovoid medallion with a half length portrait of a female saint carried by an angel. Rows of candle brackets flank it. The next section shows at the front a row of lamps which are connected by festoons, with the one at the front at left holding a thread. The statues are flanked by candelabra with burning candles. The next section consists of steps and a pedestal with rows of lamps at the corners and two angels raising a sensor at the front. A bishop stands above upon clouds containing many angels. A glory of light surrounds him. Below is a scale.
place: label: made in
content: Italy, Europe
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1370
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and wash on two pieces of paper
label: Dimensions
content: 71.3 x 27.9 cm (28 1/16 x 11 in.)