Design for a Main Altar, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, In the center of the retable is a picture, probably of the ascending Virgin. On top of it and in front of the entablature are two angels supporting a wreath. On either side are two projecting columns. Above the entablature are laterally statues of sitting women supporting a medallion. The left one is supporting also a cross. In the center is a tablet with an inscription and on to p a triangular pediment with above two kneeling angels beside a cross. The mensa has the shape of a tub sarcophagus, with two supports. The tabernacle stands upon the furniture and in front of the central panel of the zone with the pedestals. Laterally stand upon tripartite circular pedestals, having a festoon in the central part, a statue of a saint, with an angel sitting beside. Colored background., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, architecture, Drawing, Drawing