Design for an altar with an altarpiece showing the Entombment of Christ

People:

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

Title:

Design for an altar with an altarpiece showing the Entombment of Christ

Date:

printed during the first half of the 17th century

Description:

- This print depicts an altarpiece with painted and sculpted elements. The architectural framework consists of two pairs of columns, unfluted Corinthian and Solomonic, supporting an elaborate broken pediment. In the centre is a tall painting depicting the entombment of Christ in a diagonal composition, with Mary Magdalen kneeling prominently in the foreground. The top of the altar is adorned with angels holding instruments of the Passion - cross, nails, crown of thorns - and a staff with a cross symbolizing the Resurrection.
- 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: 23.0 x 15.2 cm sheet: 23.6 x 15.9 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0322

Drawing Type:

rendering

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawing

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in the plate, above the image, u.l.: "26"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

sculpture
altar
altarpiece
spiral columns

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

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