Title
Facciata del Giardino dell'Archivio Segreto, che resta addosso al medesimo Archivio, e Libraria.
Publication details
[between 1720 and 1727]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink, wash and graphite ; sheet 41.5 x 54.4 cm
Description
Four-storey fac_ade of the west side of the Archives in the Vatican Palace, with two lower floors of arches and lintelled windows within arches flanked by two orders of paired Ionic columns and pilasters under cornice decorated with dentils below, windows framed with casing and crossettes between paired Corinthian pilasters on the third floor and plain windows under the roof at the top; access through two doorways at the bottom of tower at right.
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.3.57.