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

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

printed during the first half of the 17th century

- 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.

• pattern drawing
• theoretical drawing

Engraving

plate mark: 23.0 x 15.2 cm sheet: 23.6 x 15.9 cm

DR1988:0322

• rendering

• pictorial drawing

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

• architecture

• sculpture
• altar
• altarpiece
• spiral columns