• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (architect)

Partial elevation of Michelangelo's project for Basilica di San Pietro, Rome

printed 1564

• design drawing
• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 38,8 × 54,7 cm (15 1/4 × 21 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0325

• line drawing

• elevation (drawing)

• partial view
• exterior view

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c. There is an offset image of a print of a vault of the Basilica di San Pietro on the verso (the image is similar to the print DR1979:0326).

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, u.l.: "PIO III P M [coat of arms] DICATVM"; u.r.: "FORMA PARTIS / TEMPLI / DIVI PETRI IN / VATICANO / MICHAEL ANGELVS / BONAROTVS / INVENTOR"; l.l.: "ROMAE VINCENTIVS LVCHINVS EXCV."; and l.r.: "CVM PRIVILEGIO M D LXIIII" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "82" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "82"

• architecture