- Title
- Facciata del cortile delle Statue, che resta addosso alla Cleopatra.
- Publication details
- [between 1720 and 1727]
- Physical details
- 1 drawing : ink, wash and graphite ; sheet 41.5 x 54.4 cm
- Description
- Segment of the east fac_ade of the statue court in the Vatican Palace, with river god reclining on carved sarcophagus within a niche at left, two other niches closed shutters, circular mask niches, grilles and two doors below, and plain windows and gallery of blind arches supported by pilasters under crenellation above; ashlar work seen at right and plain walls in the rest of the fac_ade.
- 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.3.69.
