Design for an 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: Shown are the elevation, an unfinished plan, a finished plan in a smaller scale. The mensa stands in front of a dado which ends laterally with two round pedestals with statues. In front of the dado of the retable stands the tabernacle in the centere. The retable has a half-circular shape formed by a double colonnade. It has on top a conch and a triangular pediment. On top a cross between two angels. The Ascension of the Virgin is represented by sculputred figures. Measurements are indicated beside the elevation and in the plans. 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: 1938-88-1363
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 x 19.6 cm (10 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)