Decoration of the Choir of a Florentine Church for a Medici Funeral Celebration
date: label: Date
content: 1620-1625
name: label: Artist
content: Alfonso Parigi, Italian, 1606 – 1656
label: Patron
content: Medici Family
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown in bird's eye view. Four steps lead to an oblong choir. Below in the center front an altar. At the lateral walls and at the walls beside the apse are sepulchral monuments. Above the sepulchral monuments are two organ lofts. Skeletons upon pedestals, one with a bow, another one with a spear, are shown as temporary decoration. Two rows of candlesticks are obliquely disposed toward the apse which is oblong. Steps lead to a pedesal upon which stands what is supposed to be a coffin. At its back end stands an urn from the base of which a drapery hangs. Laterally are candlesticks and pyramids with candles. The pyramids are as high as the entablature upon which candles are disposed. A chandelier with more candles. At the back wall hangs a coat of arms showing five beads. A coat of arms is on top of the entrance arch.
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: 1938-88-4000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.6 × 19.1 cm (8 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)