Design for the Drum and Dome of Saint Peter's Basilica

Alessandro Specchi, Italian, 1668 - 1729
after Donato Bramante, Italian, about 1444 - 1514

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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

Religion 30.01, Sacred Cities, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2024

Religion 30.01, Sacred Cities, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2024

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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