Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1700–57
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The left half of an architectural design for an altar is shown. The mensa had a convex plan, with four steps in front of the straight central part. The head piece has four steps. The retable consists of a high and complicated pedestal, with the figure of the Virgin praying in front of the Cross. The wall behind the retable had the form of a niche. At its front corner an angel is kneeling upon a pedestal, carrying a candlestick with five arms upon his head. At the corner of the mensa stands a candelabrum with two flying angels beside its shaft, and with a standing angel carrying three candle branches upon the head. The stucco decoration of the wall is suggested but not entirely executed.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-3486
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gray wash, pen and gray ink, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 65.3 x 30.6 cm (25 11/16 x 12 1/16 in.)