• Unknown, Italy, late 18th century (etcher)
• Donato Bramante (architect)
• Giuseppe Vasi (etcher)

A view of the interior of the basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

printed between 1775 and 1790

- The pair of etchings DR1985:0662 and DR1985:0663 depict a papal procession in St. Peter's, Rome. The composition is based on a painting of 1730 signed by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691-1765). The interior of Saint Peter's on the Occasion of the Visit of Cardinal Melchior di Polignac September 4, 1729 (now in the Louvre). Vasi has placed the viewer in the same position as Pannini; the spectator witnesses the procession from bird's-eye viewpoint from the central entrance to the nave. Vasi and Pannini knew each other well and the former based several other etchings on Pannini's paintings (Arisi).

• veduta

Etching

plate mark: 70.3 x 48.8 cm sheet: 81.3 x 56.1 cm

DR1985:0662

• perspective drawing

• bird's-eye view
• interior view

imprinted - on DR1985:0662 and DR1985:0663, b.: "Alla Santità del Sommo Pontefice Papa PIO VI. Felicemente Regnante / L'Interno della Basilica Vaticana colla rappresentanza dell'Ordine, con cui l'Ecclesiastica Gerarchia de'Cardinali Arcivescovi, Vescovi, Prelati, ed altri Personaggi, processionalmente colla Santità Sua si porta per celebrare le Sagre Solenni Funzioni, / prostrato à Suoi SS. Piedi Giuseppe Vai Conte Palatino, e Cavaliere dell'Aula Lateranense, da se disegnato, ed inciso in rame l'Anno del Giubbileo 1775, umilmente Da, Dona, e Dedica"; and b.: with a list of twenty sculptures and monuments in St. Peter's preceded by arabic numerals

Vatican City; Rome; Italy;

• architecture