Object Details
- Workshop of
- Antonio Asprucci, Italian, 1723 – 1808
- Designer
- Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for an altar mensa intended to be executed in colored marbles and gilded ornaments. At the lateral pilasters is the coat of arms of a Prince Borghese, united with that of his wife, a Colonna. The front of the sarcophagus is supported by balusters, the upper parts of which are in front of the sarcophagus. Above the balusters, a lion mask with handles. In the middle is an oval of palm branches with a cross. The alternative suggestions refer only to different coloring. The letter "M" is written in the low head piece, "G" in the entablature of the mensa. Three steps. The altar stands in front of the central part of the base of a kind of retable, executed in marble and gilded parts. The retable is marked several times "O," as it is twice in the space of the wall, besides one "N." Only the lower part of the retable is shown, having a central part of marble and two columns on either side.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1760
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-4290
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor over black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
- H x W: 29.5 × 50.6 cm (11 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
- Frame H x W x D: 60.3 × 75.6 × 2.9 cm (23 3/4 × 29 3/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-4290
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e32cbf50-f8ad-428c-9fa0-769e5d917b41
