Design for an altar with an altarpiece showing the Agony in the Garden

People:

Jérôme David (etcher)
Jérôme David (engraver (printmaker))
Giovanni Battista Montano (draughtsman)

Title:

Design for an altar with an altarpiece showing the Agony in the Garden

Date:

printed during the first half of the 17th century

Description:

- This print depicts a design for an altarpiece, complete with statues and a painting. The painting showss the Agony in the Garden. Flanking this are two sculpted angels holding the instruments of the passion: the left angel holds a sudarium and a pike with a sponge, while the right angel holds a column and a bundle of sticks, signifying Christ's flagellation. At the top of the altar there are three sculpted ornamental half-figures.
- The incomplete series of numbered prints, DR1988:0306 - DR1988:0331, shows Early Baroque church facades in Rome, altars, tombs, wall monuments, tabernacles and an antique temple.

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

pattern drawing
theoretical drawing

Technique and media:

Engraving

Dimensions:

plate mark: 23.1 x 15.1 cm sheet: 23.9 x 15.6 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0321

Drawing Type:

rendering

Method of Projection:

elevation (drawing)

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in the plate, above the image, u.l.: "23"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

altar
altarpiece

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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