Design for a Main Altar
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: The retable has the shape of a niche, framed by two embedded columns and outside by two more at the ends of the receding backward part. The columns stand upon pedestals which in their turn stand upon a base. In front of the base is the mensa on top of a sepulchrum; in front of the frieze, below the niche, is the tabernacle. In the niche stands a figure with extended arms upon a pedestal beside which two angels sit. Laterally, the base ends with projecting round pedestals, either of them with a group consisting of a saint or an allegory, apparently upon clouds with cherubim or angels. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1369
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: 21.8 x 16.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)