Title
FACCIATA DEL CORTILE DI S. DAMASO DETTO DELLE LOGGIE CHE RESTA DALLA PARTE DELLA FLORERIA.
Publication details
[between 1720 and 1727]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink, wash and graphite ; sheet 41.6 x 54 cm
Description
Segment of four-storey fac_ade in the west side of the courtyard of San Damaso leading to the floreria, or guardaroba, located in the rooms formerly occupied by Sixtus IV's library in the Vatican Palace, with windows, grilles and doors flanked by pillars on the ground floor, moulded arches between Doric pilasters on the first floor, Ionic pilasters above, and lintels supported by Corinthian columns on the top floor; clock tower on the adjacent side of the courtyard at left.
Place
Vatican City
Additional information
Bound in a volume consisting of ninety-one elevations of different parts of the Apostolic Palace, or Vatican Palace, as it was in the early decades of the eighteenth century, all probably by the same hand and numbered on verso. The two pages at the end of the volume contain a list of the courtyards in the palace with their plans and dimensions. For plans of the same building, see vols. 1-2 (Maps 75.k.1. and Maps 75.k.2.). For dating, see J. S. Ackerman, The Cortile del Belvedere, Citta_ del Vaticano, 1954, and H. H. Brummer, The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, Stockholm, 1970. See also Rossana Nicolo_, 'Il Belvedere di Innocenzo VIII in Vaticano nei disegni del corpus Londinese K 75 1-3' in Universita_ di Roma, Quaderni dell'istituto di storia dell'architettura (nuova serie, fascicolo 54, 2010), pp. 21-30.
Shelfmark
75.k.3.31.