Two monumental allegories representing the Church surmounting the world, accompanying a circular counter-proposal to Bernini's oval for Saint Peter's Square in Rome

People:

Constanzo de Peris (draughtsman)

Title:

Two monumental allegories representing the Church surmounting the world, accompanying a circular counter-proposal to Bernini's oval for Saint Peter's Square in Rome

Date:

1659

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink, and brown and grey wash over traces of graphite on laid paper mounted on laid paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 25,4 x 36 cm secondary support (irreg.): 27,4 x 41,6 cm

Reference number:

DR2006:0025

Inscription:

"Constanzo de Peris Inventore", à l'encre brune sur le dessin de droite;"prudenza", "Fortezza", "Giustitia", "Temperanza", à l'encre brune, de part et d'autre du dessin de gauche; "Religione Christiana", "Affrica", "America", à l'encre brune, de part et d'autre du dessin de droite; "16" et "17" à l'encre brune, en haut à droite; "198" (un n° d'inventaire ?) à l'encre brune en bas à droite; "Africa" et "America" au crayon graphite en bas à droite. Deux marques de collectionneurs , en bas à droite.

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de l'hon. Serge Joyal, c.p., o.c., à l'occasion du 80e anniversaire de Phyllis Lambert/
Gift of the Hon. Serge Joyal, p.c., o.c., on the occasion of Phyllis Lambert's 80th birthday

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