Plan of the Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Palace, Rome

People:

Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (etcher)
Donato Bramante (architect)
Ortensia Borromea (dedicatee)
conte Aniballe Altemps (dedicatee)
Pope Julius II (patron)

Title:

Plan of the Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Palace, Rome

Date:

printed 1565

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

record drawing

Technique and media:

Etching on laid paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 56,2 × 34,1 cm (22 1/8 × 13 7/16 in.)

Reference number:

DR1979:0329

Drawing Type:

line drawing

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Point of View:

general view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet has a repaired loss at l.l. and an old horizontal fold at b. There is an offset image of an unidentified print on the verso.

Inscription:

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, u.c.: "FV dalla fe: me:di Giulio 2.o fatto un Corridore per l'uso di andare dal Sacro Palazzo apostollico, al luo= / go detto Belvedere [...] Di che ne ha dato, et dara alliposteri, vero testimonio, la bellissima giostra fattavi questo Carnevale / del Anno 1565 per consecratione del luogo, et per honorare le Nozzi dell'Ill.mo Conte Aniballe Altemps. / et Ill.ma S.ra Ortensia Borromea, quale in altri foglisi è postain luce. / Ant.s Lafreri Rome, An: 1565" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "86"

Subject:

architecture

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

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