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GIUSEPPE BARBERI. Design for an Altar

GIUSEPPE BARBERI. The sepulchrum in the shape of a sarcophagus, marked with "C", stands in the hollow "B" of the mensa. Beside are panels with a prelate's escutcheons; the left one is marked "B". The dividing console is twice marked "A". In the center of the altar furniture is the tabernacle, with the crucifix standing upon it. Beside it, at right, alternate three statuettes of saints with three candelabra. The mouldings of the furniture are marked at left from the bottom to the top: "A B C A D A". Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809.

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Author: Giuseppe Barberi (1746-1809)

Title: Design for an Altar

Caption: The sepulchrum in the shape of a sarcophagus, marked with "C", stands in the hollow "B" of the mensa. Beside are panels with a prelate's escutcheons; the left one is marked "B". The dividing console is twice marked "A". In the center of the altar furniture is the tabernacle, with the crucifix standing upon it. Beside it, at right, alternate three statuettes of saints with three candelabra. The mouldings of the furniture are marked at left from the bottom to the top: "A B C A D A". Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809.

Technique/material: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on lined off-white laid paper

Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Credit: Abum

Image size: 3600 × 3341 px | 34.4 MB

Print size: 30.5 × 28.3 cm | 1417.3 × 1315.4 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM • DRAWING • PEN AND BROWN INK, BRUSH AND BROWN WASH, GRAPHITE ON LINED OFF-WHITE LAID PAPER