Design for the Drum and Dome of Saint Peter's Basilica
Alessandro Specchi, Italian, 1668 - 1729
after Donato Bramante, Italian, about 1444 - 1514
1694, printed 1715
Engraving on wove paper
Plate: 11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in. (29.1 × 20.5 cm)
Sheet: 20 3/8 × 15 1/4 in. (51.8 × 38.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.993.42.36
Portfolio / Series Title
Numismata summorum pontificum Templi Vaticani fabricam indicantia
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: Alexander Specchi delin.et Sculp.; inscribed, in plate, top center: TABVLA II. / DELINEATIO THOLI BASILICAE VATICANAE / IVXTA TYPVM BRAMANITS
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.72.
Provenance
Robert Dance, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1993.
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