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 mensa is in the center of the socle zone; beside it are two panels with escutcheons. Laterally stand rectangular pedestals, either of them with a medallion above crossed branches at the front, and with a group of standing figures between two sitting angels. In the next zone are three projecting pedestals. The outer ones, with a representation at their fronts, support two columns each; the central one, decorated with a festoon, supports a group, consisting of a woman with a cross, and angels. The retable forms a niche, the conch of which his above the entablature. On top is a triangular pediment, with two figures standing upon the lower corners, and on top the triangle in a globe, with a glory of rays, supported apparently by two sitting angels.
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: 1938-88-1381
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: 27.6 x 20.1 cm (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)