Perspective of the façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome

People:

Nicolas Beatrizet (engraver (printmaker))
Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (architect)
Pope Paul III (patron)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (architect)

Title:

Perspective of the façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Date:

printed 1549

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

record drawing

Technique and media:

Engraving on laid paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 33.6 x 53.7 cm (13 1/4 x 21 1/8 in.)

Reference number:

DR1979:0330

Drawing Type:

line drawing

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Point of View:

general view
exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c.

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "87" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "87" inscribed - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, t.: "THEATRVM MARCELLI"; u.l.: "I. SCAENA /II. PROSCAENIVM / III.PVLPITVM / IIII. ORCHESTRA / V. CORVS / VI. CAVEA / VII.PODIA SIVE CVNEI"; and in various locations: with numbers I to VII on the image, corresponding to the legend inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, u.l. to u.r.: "Exterior orthographia frontis Farnesianae domus: quam Romae, et magnis impensis, et servatis architecturae praeceptis PAVLVS Tertius Pontifex Maximus, à fundamentis / memoriae caussa, sibi posterisque suis erexit"; b.: "Mensura, Palmorum XL"; and l.r.: "Antonij Lafrerij Sequani formis M D XLVIIII" signed - by the engraver, l.l.: "NB [Nicolas Beatrizet's monogram] F[ecit]"

Subject:

architecture

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

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