Ornate Architectural Designs

Detailed prints of intricate ornamental designs, including confessionals, vases, and architectural elements, showcasing baroque styles and delicate engravings.

The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable, Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and grey and black watercolors on laid paper., Vertical rectangle showing elevation. At the top, a tabernacle, showing the Annunciation at its door, stands in the center of a ledge and at the base of the retable. It has the shape of an aedicula with four embedded columns. On each side, there are two rows of seven ovoidal frames. A saint stands at the left. A putto, carrying an oivoidal medallion with a saint, sits at the right. A circular pediment is on top, flanked by two urns containing fire. Two putti sit upon it and support a crown. At the bottom is a scale and a plan of a retable in pavilion shape. On verso: pencil plans with scale in the opposite direction., Italy, 1770-1800, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
The Elevation of an Altar Retable and The Plan for an Altar Retable, Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and grey and black watercolors on laid paper., Vertical rectangle showing elevation. At the top, a tabernacle, showing the Annunciation at its door, stands in the center of a ledge and at the base of the retable. It has the shape of an aedicula with four embedded columns. On each side, there are two rows of seven ovoidal frames. A saint stands at the left. A putto, carrying an oivoidal medallion with a saint, sits at the right. A circular pediment is on top, flanked by two urns containing fire. Two putti sit upon it and support a crown. At the bottom is a scale and a plan of a retable in pavilion shape. On verso: pencil plans with scale in the opposite direction., Italy, 1770-1800, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing