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New light on the production of ‘Il Tempio Vaticano’

01/2018 | 1378 | 160

Pages: 22-30

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Author:

Antinori, Aloisio (Antinori, Aloisio)

Subjects

artists:

Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714 / Specchi, Alessandro / Delino, Simone Felice

buildings:

Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Italy / Piazza San Pietro, Rome, Italy

dates:

1660-1719

media:

Books / Book illustrations

patrons:

Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689

places:

Rome

subjects:

Italian architecture / Obelisks

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Preparatory drawing for the plate at p.169 of Il Tempio Vaticano, showing the machinery used for the raising of the Vatican obelisk in 1586, by Carlo Fontana. Before 1692. (Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Grab. 23 VIII-M-398, f.25).

Attributed works:

2. Dispositione e veduta generale delle machine che servirono per alzare l’obelisco Vaticano, by Alessandro Specchi after Fig.1. Plate at p.169 of Il Tempio Vaticano (1694), by Carlo Fontana. Engraving. (Fabbrica di S. Pietro in Vaticano).

Attributed works:

5. Preparatory drawing for the plate at p.191 of Il Tempio Vaticano showing the plan of the colonnade, a section of the corridor on the south side of the piazza and a plan of the basilica’s portico, by Carlo Fontana. Before 1689. (Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Grab. 23 VIII-M-398, f.33).

Attributed works:

6. Pianta in proportione maggiore che dimostra un braccio delli portici e corritori attorno alla piazza, by Alessandro Specchi after Fig.5. Plate at p.191 of Il Tempio Vaticano (1694), by Carlo Fontana. Engraving. (Fabbrica di S. Pietro in Vaticano).

Western art unattributed:

3. Italian frontispiece of Il Tempio Vaticano, Rome 1694. (Fabbrica di S. Pietro in Vaticano).

Western art unattributed:

4. Latin frontispiece of Il Tempio Vaticano, Rome 1694. (Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano).

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