Four sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including a church, a palace and a gateway to a garden

People:

Albert Barnekow (architect)
Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)

Title:

Four sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including a church, a palace and a gateway to a garden

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Description:

- The four drawings depict a design for a monumental building, possibly Sta. Annunziata, with a shallow dome and a large staircase (DR1982:0126 R:001), a plan for a domed church inscribed "S[t]ma Annunziata" (DR1982:0126 R:002), a gothic-style palace in front of a piazza with curving colonnades and a fountain (DR1982:0126 R:003), and a gateway surmounted by the device of Alberto I (DR1982:0126 R:004).

Form:
drawings
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 page(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawings

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink, mostly with wash, with some additions in graphite

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 12,3 x 6,4 cm sheet (largest): 15,1 x 18,3 cm secondary support: 25,5 x 30,9 cm

Reference number:

DR1982:0126 R:001-004

Drawing Type:

sketches

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawings
plan (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Four drawings are mounted on a secondary support which was formerly a page from a album or a portfolio.

Inscription:

inscribed - on DR1982:0126 R:002, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, c.l. to l.l.: "S[t]ma Annunziata" [sideways] inscribed - on the secondary support, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, c.l. to c.: "Tribuno della [Sm]eraldo"; b.: " ... del Rezidenzo ... [below DR1982:0126 R:003]; in black ink, b.: "museo all Parnasso Barnekow" [below DR1982:0126 R:003 and DR1982:0126 R:004] numbered - on the secondary support, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "3"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountain
stairs
gateway
palace
dome
visionary architecture
monuments
colonnades
Neoclassical
Gothic Revival

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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