A view of the Cathedra Petri in St. Peter's, Rome

People:

Jacques Blondeau (role unspecified)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (architect)

Title:

A view of the Cathedra Petri in St. Peter's, Rome

Date:

1692

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

veduta

Technique and media:

Engraving

Dimensions:

plate mark: 69.5 x 47.7 cm sheet: 75.8 x 54.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1985:0275

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Inscription:

inscribed - CATHEDRAM S. PETRI in interiori templi fronte ingredientibus ab ipso limine, e regione aspectabilem,ALEXANDER VII. PONT. MAX. decentius collocavit, exornavitq./Sancti EcclesiaeDoctores Athanasius, Io. Chrysostomus, Ambrosius, Augustinus, colossea statua unica aeris fusura expressi, threcam sustinent, qua includitur. Angeli, nubes,radij de celo ambiunt. Spiritus Sanctus columbae specie/supereminens opuscoronat. Basis ex laspide, vario pretiosoq. distincta lapide. Caetera ex AEreauro superinducto. A.S. MDCLXVI (imprinted, lower centre), Eques Io.La[u]renz. Bernini Inv. (imprinted, lower left), Romae ex Typographia Dominicide Rubeis Heredis Io. Iacobi de Rubeis ad Temp. S.M. de Pace cum Super. perm. Anno 1692. (imprinted, lower centre), Iac. Blondeau Sculp. (imprinted, lower right)

Subject:

architecture

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

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