Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua
date: label: Date
content: 1685–1700
name: label: Artist
content: Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above is the elevation with parts of the adjoining walls and of the entablature shown; below is the plan. Disposed in half of an ovoidal niche. The mensa has the shape of an angular sarcophagus which is supported by two legs with cherubim in front of their upper parts. The figure of the Saint with the Christ child stands upon a pedestal in an angular niche; flanked by two fluted and embedded columns. Two women sit upon the triangular pediment, the left one probably with a burning heart, the right one carrying a twig. The conch is coffered. Below is the scale: "Scala di Palmi venti Romani." Framing line and stripe. Written in ink in lower left corner: "Padre Pozzo lo fece."
place: label: made in
content: Europe
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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: 1938-88-3463
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, pen and ink, brush, gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 66 × 43.2 cm (26 × 17 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 91.4 × 71.1 cm (36 × 28 in.)