Title
[Collegio dei Nobili a Siena].
Creator
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714, artist.
Publication details
[between 1670 and 1700]
Physical details
1 drawing : pencil, ink and wash ; sheet 26.2 x 25.8 cm
Description
Elevation of part of a four-storey fac_ade in the Collegio dei Nobili in Siena at left, with section of staircase and of the four floors under the roof at right.
Place
Siena (Italy)
Additional information
Bound with twenty architectural drawings and some notes by Carlo Fontana in one of the twenty-four volumes from the collection of Cardinal Albani acquired by James Adam for George III in 1762. This volume corresponds to no. 20 in Giovanni Battista Contini's 1716 inventory of Albani's collection, where its contents are described as 'Conclaue Circondario Vaticano Seminario di / Siena Ruscellai' (Braham, A. and Hager, H., Carlo Fontana. The Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1977, p. 3). For other two volumes of drawings by Fontana in the King's Topographical Collection, see 118.e.14. and Maps 7.Tab.46. This is one of five drawings that Hager considers as derived from Fontana's designs for the renovation of the Roman Palazzo Altieri in Piazza del Gesu_ in the early 1670s and pertaining to a project for the Collegio dei Nobili in Siena that was never executed.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.57.14.