Design for an Altar, Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk, streak of brown chalk on white laid paper, Vertical rectangle. The mensa, altar stone, stands in the center of a sockle part, upon which a second sockle row stands. A small tabernacle stands in front of it, containing in its central part a reliquary shrine. The retable has the shape of an arch, which is flanked by three embedded columns on either side supporting the entablature and the broken pediment. Figures sit upon the cornices. Two angels support an ovoid with the dove

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