• Pietro Bracci (draughtsman)
• Francesco Borromini (architect)

Elevation, section, and plan for Borromini's portal for the Vigna of Bernardino Missori outside the Porta Pia, Rome

between 1715 and 1773

- Half section of a gateway to a villa with a plan below. The upper drawing includes the view through the gateway into the garden.

• record drawing

Pen and black ink and grey and brown wash, over traces of black chalk ?

sheet: 50.1 x 31.3 cm

DR1966:0001:063

• finished drawing

• plan (drawing)
• section
• half section
• elevation (drawing)

• exterior view
• interior view

- The drawing is framed by a pen and brown ink border just inside the edge of the sheet. A tear at the u.r. has been repaired.

inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, t.: "Portico, che al di fuori forma Portone di Villa, et al di dentro serue [sic] di vestibulo all'in= / gresso della medema, sopra del quale ui [sic] è l'abitazione per il Portinaro; questo esiste / fuori di Porta Pia, inuentato [sic], et fatto eseguire dal Boromino [sic]" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "63"; and verso, l.r.: "63" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "63" [written upside down]

• architecture
• architecture de paysage