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The Origin of the Oval in Bernini's Piazza S. Pietro
12/1979 | 921 | 121
Pages: 796-801
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Author:
Kruft, Hanno-Walter (Kruft, Hanno-Walter)
Subjects
artists:
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
artists:
Dupérac, Etienne
buildings:
Piazza San Pietro, Rome, Italy
dates:
1600-1649
places:
Italy / Rome
subjects:
Italian architecture / Squares
subjects:
Visual sources / Roman (ancient) architecture
subjects:
Ager Vaticanus (historical region)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Piazza S. Pietro, Rome, by Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Attributed works:
39. The Vatican Area, from Roma antica, by Etienne Dupérac. 1574.
Attributed works:
40. The Vatican Area, from a Sketchbook by Etienne Dupŕeac.
Non-western art unattributed:
36. The Ka'ba in Mecca. Fayence. (Benaki-Museum, Athens).
Western art unattributed:
35. Piazza S. Pietro, in a Postcard of the Holy Year 1975.
Western art unattributed:
38. The 'Circus Neronianus' in the Reconstruction of the 1600 Rome Guide.