Design for a Main Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1783
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the center of the retable is a niche with a group of the Deposition of Christ, laterally framed by a projecting column and a strip with two panels and a pilaster outside; above is a triangular pediment supported by a pedestal with an inscription in a wreath at the front and two angels sitting laterally upon its base. In front of the socle stands the mensa. In the panels below the pilasters are panels with a prelat's escutcheons. The socle is elongated and two groups of a saint with angles stand upon the pedestals at the outsides. The apsis is outlined.
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: 1938-88-1372
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.)