Design for an altar, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Shown are the elevation, an unfinished plan, a finished plan in a smaller scale. The mensa stands in front of a dado which ends laterally with two round pedestals with statues. In front of the dado of the retable stands the tabernacle in the centere. The retable has a half-circular shape formed by a double colonnade. It has on top a conch and a triangular pediment. On top a cross between two angels. The Ascension of the Virgin is represented by sculputred figures

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