Project for a tabernacle
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical composition of a tabernacle. Top: The elevation of the facade of a church with a dome. Below is a dado, the plan of which is concave, as is that of the first story. The second story is convex. A pedestal with a statue of the Arisen Christ is on top. Statues stand on the entablature of both stories. The panels of the right sides of either story are decorated with statues in niches, as one stands in the central panel of the upper story. The right half of the plan of the first story is on the bottom.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1750–1775
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-2496
- Artist
- Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen, brush, ink and gray watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 35.4 × 19.1 cm (13 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-2496
