• Unknown (draughtsman)
• Pietro da Cortona (draughtsman)

Album of drawings of architectural details and ancient monuments

circa 1620-1757 or after

Album of unsigned drawings, chiefly of architectural details, including windows from palaces in Rome or from San Pietro in Vaticano, and Roman antiquities. Other subjects include a design for an illustrated title page for Antonio Bosio’s 'Roma Sotterranea', a sketch after a detail from Raphael’s 'The mass of Bolsena', and drawings of skeletons (an ostrich, a frog and a fish), ceremonial staves, vases, coats of arms and putti.

• studies (visual works)

Mostly pen and brown ink and brown wash, some verso drawings in a black chalk alone

album: 28.7 × 22.2 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

DR1983:0652:001-038

A modern vellum-bound album, with gold-embossed decoration on the front and back covers and on the spine; the title, PIETRO/BERRETTINI/STUDIDI/ ARCHITET. E/DISEGNI/ORIGINALI, also embossed on the spine; four leather thongs, two each, attached to the front and back cover; most of the drawings are drawn on the pages directly sewn into the album; a few others are hinged onto those pages

inscribed - (each leaf numbered sequentially, pen and brown ink and graphite, in upper and lower right corners, three hands, old and modern)

• architecture

• windows
• antique monuments
• aedicules

Contains:

• DR1983:0652:001, Inscribed title and date; verso: Cardinal's coat of arms, 1634 or later
• DR1983:0652:002, Copy of a design for the frontispiece for Antonio Bosio’s 'Roma Sotterranea' , 1634 or later
• DR1983:0652:003, Elevation of window from the inner court of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome; verso: Sketch after a detail from Raphael's 'The mass of Bolsena', between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:004, Elevation of window from the upper floor courtyard façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome; verso: Two bands of the frieze from Trajan's Column, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:005, Elevation of window from the main floor of the courtyard façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:006, Elevation of window from the facade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:007, Elevation of wall niche from the first landing of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:008, Elevation of aedicula from the ground floor of the south tribune of Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:009, Elevation of aedicula for an inscription in the passage of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:010, Elevation of portal of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:011, Design for a portal with open pediment and shell ornaments; verso: Incomplete design for a portal, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:012, Elevation of upper-level window and string-courses from the façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:013, Elevation of window at the south tribune of Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:015, Elevation of an attic window from St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:016, Blank leaf; verso: Inscription in an unknown hand, not before 1757
• DR1983:0652:017, Partial view of the entrance side of the base of Trajan's Column, Rome, circa 1620
• DR1983:0652:018, View of torus and lower bands of Trajan's Column, Rome; verso: Sketch of a Roman soldier stepping to the left, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:019, Beginning of copy after folio 18 (base of Trajan's Column, Rome), between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:020, Detail of the east side of the Arch of Titus, Rome; verso and folio 22: Corner of pediment of the Frontispicium Neronis, Rome (now demolished), between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:021, Corner of pediment of the Frontispicium Neronis, Rome (now demolished); verso: Lateral view of an ostrich skeleton and two putti, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:022, Detail of Griffin Frieze from the east wall of the Cella of the Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:023, Capitals and entablature from the Temple of Vespasian, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:024, Capitals and entablature from the Temple of Castor and Pollux on the Forum Romanum, Rome; verso: Corinthian capitals and entablature, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:025, Detail of the arch of Septimus Severus, Rome, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:026, Detail of the Arch of Portugal (Arco di Portogallo, now demolished), Rome; verso: Skeleton of a frog and skeleton of a fish, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:028, Cinerary altar, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:029, Round base and round altar, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:030, Round base and four-cornered base or altar, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:031, Grave altar with inscription tablet, ram's heads, gorgoneion and sphinxes, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:032, Round base or altar with inscription tablet, garland and griffins, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:033, Two bases or altars, one decorated with female figures moving right and the other with garlands, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:034, Two decorated bases, placed one on top of the other, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:035, Ceremonial staff with Barberini bees; verso: Ceremonial staff, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:036, Ceremonial staff, between 17th and 19th centuries
• DR1983:0652:037, Two vases; verso: Two coats of arms of Urban VIII and a cartouche, between 17th and 19th centuries