Design for the high altar of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp

Inventory number: CVH 84
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design for the high altar of the St. Ignatius Church in Antwerp (now the Carolus Borromeus Church), with alternative proposals. It concerns a Baroque altar, with two twisted pillars on the left and one twisted pillar and a standing angel with a candlestick on the right. The level above consists of a narrower central part, on which there is a fronton with volutes and beside which run another two volutes, with an angel on each one.

Artist:

Pieter Huyssens S.J.

Dating:

unknown

Material:

Chalk, sanguine, black ink and India ink on paper

Dimensions:

1100 x 525 mm

Marks :

Inscription on the reverse, at the bottom.

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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