Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal composition of a colored marble altar with four steps beneath. The front of the mensa is decorated in the middle by a cross framed with an oval garland. The lateral panels feature the coat-of-arms of a prelate with a lion rampant. The tabernacle is in the center of the altar bank with a circular pediment above and three burning candles on each side. The candles are flanked by green angel statues with green cornucopiae with red flames. Clouds are beneath the angels feet.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Date
- ca. 1820
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink, watercolor, over graphite on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.4 x 20.2 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
- dims. vary
- Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
