Plan of Saint Peter's Basilica
Alessandro Specchi, Italian, 1668 - 1729
1696, printed 1715
Etching on paper
Plate: 15 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (38.9 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 in. (49.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.993.42.37
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Aler: specus: Sculp:; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Eques Carolus Fonatan Delin:; inscribed, in plate, top center: PIANTA DEL TEMPIO VATICANO; inscribed, in plate, top left: La parte piu oscura denota quella fatta da Giulio II. sino a / Paolo V. Architettura delli: gia descritt: Architetti./La partemeno oscura denota quella patta da Paolo V./ Architettura di... Carlo Maderna Vestita d'ornati fatti / dalli Pontefici: sino al presente giorno 1690. Dalla lettera Aie B. denota la parte de mezzo / del Tempio che Piegha verso mazzogiorno. ; inscribed, in plate, top left: nel loco C. si sconge sopra la fuccia del luogho l'angolo ottuso / che /fa l'attacco della gionta fatta da Paolo V. / nel loco D. Sagrestia di presente e nel loco E. era / l'obelisco avanit il trasporto / nel loco F. denota come crano li scalini del repiano / avanti: Alessandro VII. ; numbered, in plate, top left: 287 Inscribed, in graphite, lower right: Alexander Specchi / (1668-1729) / Roman architect de Rossi / 1699?
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
ARTH 13, Rome: The Eternal City, Nicola Camerlenghi, Summer 2014
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
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
ARTH 17.01, Rome, the Eternal City, Nicolas Camerlenghi, Summer 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Provenance
Robert Dance, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1993.
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