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 central part of the retable has the shape of a niche, in front of which, below, is a panel with two festoons, above a picture, probably the Virgin, carried by angels upon clouds into heaven. On top of the circular frame are two angels. In the height of the upper angular edge of the frame is, laterally, an entablature. It is curved and projecting at the front, the outer end being supported by a column, the inner one by a pilaster, belonging to the wall of the niche. The entablature projects also to the back wall, the supports being similar. Above the entablature, laterally and at the front, are angels. On top of the niche is a triangular pediment with two sitting angels. In the outer panels of the zone of the pedestals are escutcheons. In the hollow of the mensa is a bathtub sepulchrum. the tabernacle stands upon the mensa. slightly 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: 1938-88-1380
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: 27.1 x 19.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.)