Visionary design for a piazza with a high-domed building and a curving colonnade

People:

Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)
Albert Barnekow (architect)
Unknown, Italy, 19th century (draughtsman)

Title:

Visionary design for a piazza with a high-domed building and a curving colonnade

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink with brown wash, with some pen and grey ink and blue watercolour

Dimensions:

secondary support: 20.9 x 27.8 cm sheet: 19.3 x 26.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0014

Drawing Type:

sketch

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawing

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Three drawings have been laid down on the same secondary support; DR1987:0014 on one side, and DR1987:0015 and DR1987:0016 on the other.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and greyish brown ink, t.: "Specolum [Z]oologico [e] Botanico ... Bibliotica albertinae rediviva" inscribed - on the secondary support, the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, t.: "Sede sapienza ..."; and l., r., b.: with illegible partial inscriptions [sheet trimmed]

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountains
statues
domes
piazza
square (open space)
church
triumphal arch
visionary architecture
fortress
cupolas
colonnades
memorial column
Neoclassical

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

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