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Two drawings by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara for the decoration of the portico of new St Peter’s

03/2011 | 1296 | 153

Pages: 163-167

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Author:

Bortolozzi, Anna (Bortolozzi, Anna)

Subjects

artists:

Maderno, Carlo / Ricci, Giovanni Battista

buildings:

Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Italy

dates:

1600-1649

museums and institutions:

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

print:

Ricci, Giovanni Battista

subjects:

Architecture / Architectural drawings / Architectural components / Christian iconography / Iconography / Stuccowork / Reliefs / Ceilings / Collections, Public / Doorways

subjects:

Religious architecture / Churches

Illustrations

Attributed works:

33. Detail of the façade of St Peter’s, Rome, designed by Carlo Maderno. c.1607–12. (Photograph: A. Bortolozzi).

Attributed works:

34. Courtyard of old St Peter’s, Rome, by Domenico Tasselli da Lugo. c.1605. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio di S. Pietro, ‘Album’ A 64 ter, fol.10. (Photograph: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).

Attributed works:

35. Design for the stucco ceiling of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome, by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara. c.1618. Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and light-blue wash, 20.5 by 43 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Attributed works:

36. Design for the stucco ceiling of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome, by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara. c.1618. Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash, 40.6 by 65.3 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Attributed works:

37. Detail of the central doorway of the portico in Fig.33. (Photograph: A. Bortolozzi).

Attributed works:

38. Interior of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome. Designed by Carlo Maderno. c.1618–20.

Attributed works:

39. Detail of Fig.36.

Western art unattributed:

40. Detail of St Andrew presents St Peter to Christ from the stucco ceiling of the portico of St Peter’s, Rome.

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