• Giovanni Antonio Zani (architect)
• Giovanni Antonio Zani (draughtsman)

Section showing renovations for a magazine at the Fortress of Ferrara

ca. 1630-1640

- A plan for the magazine for the Fortress of Ferrara appears on DR1981:0017:069 V.

• design development drawing

Pen and brown ink with watercolour over traces of black chalk underdrawing

sheet: 27.6 x 19.8 cm

DR1981:0017:069 R

• finished drawing

• section

- This drawing was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the letters indicating pagination.

inscribed and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, u.c.: "Marmo"; c.l. to c.r.: "Strada in Fortezza"; l.c.: "Profilo de Magazini della Fortezza di Ferrara ridotto sicuro dalle / bombe come dal disegno si vede, formato secondo la retroscritta / pianto, e la spexa fu di ...15256, per ciascuno fatto di Pianta novo. / Le volte de'sudetto furano fatti di Tre teste con sue Catene di Ferro"; and l.r.: "Giantonio Cap:Zanj." inscribed - by the draughtsman or a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "yy"

• architecture
• militaire

• arches
• magazine (military building)