Elevation of an altar retable for a project
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1570-1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Intended to be executed in stone, probably in gilt bronze parts. The mensa is outlined. The retable has a dado below with projecting lateral parts. The three main sections show framings of panels. Four fluted Doric pilasters at left support the the entablature. In the central interval is a niche with a standing shell in the concha. In the lateral intervals are what are probably smaller niches, with decorated dados below; with cherubim in panels above them. Laterally are butress volutes, with bunches of fruit hanging above. The triglyph frieze shows rosettes. On top is a low attic and vases containing fire standing upon the corners. In the center is a pediment consisting of a panel with a dove, between volutes and on top a circular pediment with a shell.
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: 1938-88-2397
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: Incised lines; black chalk, pen, ink, brush, yellow, grayish brown water colors on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 43.5 × 29 cm (17 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.)