Title
[Elevation of the Scuola Grande di San Fantin, Venice].
Creator
Visentini, Antonio, 1688-1782, artist.
Publication details
[between 1730 and 1740]
Physical details
1 drawing : brown ink and grey wash ; sheet 52.5 x 35 cm.
Description
View of the fac_ade of the Scuola Grande di San Fantin (Ateneo Veneto), with lintelled doorway under triangular pediment flanked by arched windows under open pediments and niches between Ionic columns in the ground floor, arched windows with balconies under open pediments between niches and Composite columns in the upper order, and large aedicule with Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John linked to the side wings and their domed towers by volutes above; scale below.
Place
Venice (Italy)
Additional information
From a collection of tinted Architectural Drawings of Churches, Palaces, and other edifices in Venice, their plans, elevations, etc. Probably by Antonio Visentini and members of his workshop. Prefixed to each tome are the Arms of Joseph Smith, formerly British Consul at Venice, to whom the work once belonged; and a table in MS. entitled:
Shelfmark
71.i.3.