A view of the piazza and basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome, showing Bernini's colonnade

People:

Giovanni Battista Falda (engraver (printmaker))
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (architect)

Title:

A view of the piazza and basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome, showing Bernini's colonnade

Date:

1729

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

veduta

Technique and media:

Engraving

Dimensions:

plate mark: 47.6 x 62.2 cm sheet: 54.9 x 74.9 cm

Reference number:

DR1985:0276

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Point of View:

bird's-eye view

Inscription:

inscribed - VEDUTA DELL'AMPIA BASILICA VATICANA/Con il Prospetto del suo Colonnato d'Architettura del Cavaliero Gio. Lorenzo Bernini, e della Piazza nuovamente abbellita conselciata, e riquadratura diTra=/vertini sotto la direzzione dell'Illmo, e Rmo. Monsig.r Lodovico Sergardigià Economo della Fabrica di detta Basilica/Data di nuovo alla luce da LorenzoFilippo de Rossi Calcografo Vaticano figlio del q.m Domenico erede di Gio.Giacomo in Roma alla Pace con Privilegio del Sommo Pontefice l'anno 1729/Gio.Battista Falda disegnò, e intagliò (imprinted across bottom)

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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