Title
Facciata del Cortile di Belvedere, che resta addosso alla Libraria.
Publication details
[between 1720 and 1727]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink, wash and graphite ; sheet 41.5 x 54.3 cm
Description
Three-storey fac_ade of the porticoed north side of the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican Palace, with arches supported by Doric pilasters under frieze decorated with triglyphs and metopes below, and lintelled windows framed by casing and crossettes within blind arches supported by Ionic pilasters on the second and third floors, under cornice decorated with dentils.
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.3.53.