Design for a Church Festival Setting, Brush and gray watercolor, black chalk on laid paper; verso: graphite, Vertical rectangle, design partially incomplete at upper left. Two stairs lead up to an apse of complicated plan and elevation. Further stairs lead up to an exedra in this apse. The Virgin Mary surrounded by figures is seated in it and looks in reverence toward the monstrance, which is exposed in a glory of light and angels, on the ceiling. Further figures are shown upon and beside the stairs. Verso: part of an architectural plan., Rome, Italy, ca. 1700, architecture, interiors, Drawing

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