Title Page, Part 9, from an Album of Drawings belonging to Don Gaspero Méndez de Haro y Guzman
date: label: Date
content: after 1682
name: label: Patron
content: Gasparo Mendez de Haro y Guzman, Spanish
label: Artist
content: Unknown
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format architectural drawing. Two stories, the lower one with pilasters of Doric order, the upper one with pilasters of Ionic order. The door frame shows a broken pediment with an escutcheon in the center, with a winged skull on top. Laterally are niches showing statues of DEATH in front of trophies, the left one referring to worldly power, the right one to ecclesiastical dignitaries. In the central panel of the upper storey is a circular window. In the lower wedges are represented souls in Purgatory, in the upper ones two Blessed ascending to Heaven. Figure of St. Michael stands upon the Devil, recumbent, upon the entablature of the lower story. In the lateral panels are windows, with volutes below, in front. On top is a triangular pediment. In its front and in that of the entablature is the Virgin with the Child, sitting upon clouds. The base of the Cross is shown above.
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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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-43
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 blue-gray and brown wash, black chalk on heavy brown laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 64.3 × 42.2 cm (25 5/16 × 16 5/8 in.)