Design for a Main Altar, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, The retable has the shape of a niche, framed by two embedded columns and outside by two more at the ends of the receding backward part. The columns stand upon pedestals which in their turn stand upon a base. In front of the base is the mensa on top of a sepulchrum; in front of the frieze, below the niche, is the tabernacle. In the niche stands a figure with extended arms upon a pedestal beside which two angels sit. Laterally, the base ends with projecting round pedestals, either of them with a group consisting of a saint or an allegory, apparently upon clouds with cherubim or angels. Colored background., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, architecture, Drawing, Drawing
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Design, Main Altar, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen, brown ink, brush, brown wash, lined off-white laid paper, retable, shape, niche, framed, two embedded columns, outside, two, ends, receding backward part, columns stand upon pedestals, turn stand upon, base, front, base, mensa, top, sepulchrum, front, frieze, niche, tabernacle, niche stands, figure, extended arms upon, pedestal beside, two angels sit, Laterally, base ends, projecting round pedestals, group consisting, saint, allegory, apparently upon clouds, cherubim, angels, Colored background, Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, architecture, Drawing, Drawing
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