Elevation of an Apse with Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1775–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The entablature of the altar is in the same height than that of the chapel; part of the supports being the same for either. A frame of a reversed image is supported by angels before the entablature under the circular pediment. Statues of female figures stand laterally beside the mensa.
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: 1938-88-1674
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, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.4 x 19.3 cm (7 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)