• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)

Perspective of a papal benediction in the piazza of Basilica di San Pietro, Rome

printed between ca. 1570 and ca. 1573

• record drawing

Engraving

secondary support: 49.7 x 64.3 cm sheet: 40.5 x 56.0 cm

DR1979:0321

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• bird's-eye view
• exterior view

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

inscribed - by the engraver ? in the plate below the image, l.l.: "Christicolae huc alacres concurrite saepe fideles: / Hic Deus in terris numinis alta subit."; b.: "Sacris dum manibus populo benedicit, amice / Assislas: Petri nam gerit ipse vices."; and l.r.: "Praesulis hic summi benedictio celsa notatur / Hac cruce signatos demonis ars refugit." and "Romae ex typis Antonij Lafreri Sequani" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "78" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "78"

• architecture

• blessing