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Project for an Altar

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
In the central part above the mensa is a sepulchre with the body of a Saint. In front of the second story of the retable is a reliquary box with a cherub between two cornices turned outside on top. Above is a triangular pediment with two obelisks and a cross. In the panels beside the mensa are two "A"s. At right is the left part of a door, below the scale.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Possibly
Francesco Mosca
Date
ca. 1575
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Medium
Pen and brown ink Support: off-white laid paper on secondary paper support
Dimensions
26.8 × 17.7 cm (10 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Type
architecture, interiors
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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