Title
Facciata del Cortile di Belvedere, che resta addosso alla Galeria.
Publication details
[between 1720 and 1727]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink, wash and graphite ; sheet 41.5 x 98.8 cm
Description
Five-storey fac_ade of the west side of the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican Palace, with blind arches flanked by Doric pilasters on the ground floor, two orders of lintelled windows within blind arches supported by Ionic pilasters above, lintelled windows framed by casing and crossettes between pilasters of the Composite order with central balcony on the fourth floor, and plain windows and pilasters at the top.
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.3.48.