Veduta interiore della Gran Basilica di S.Pietro in Vaticano Dinuovo misurata disegnata & intagliata da Alessandro Specchi e

Reference: S36097
Author Alessandro SPECCHI
Year: 1687
Zone: San Pietro
Printed: Rome
Measures: 690 x 485 mm
€400.00

Reference: S36097
Author Alessandro SPECCHI
Year: 1687
Zone: San Pietro
Printed: Rome
Measures: 690 x 485 mm
€400.00

Description

Interior orthogonal view in St Peter's in the Vatican looking across the nave along one entire side.

In the upper right corner, cartouche with title, dedication and measures.

1687 Engraving.

Alessandro SPECCHI (Roma, 1668 - Roma, 1729)

Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He studied architecture in the studio of Carlo Fontana and assisted in the construction of Fontana’s chapel of St Fabian (c. 1706) in S Sebastiano fuori le Mura in Rome. From at least 1684 he produced sets of architectural engravings. Many of these were published by Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi and his son Domenico de’ Rossi ( fl 1684–1721), including 52 engravings for Quarto libro del nuovo teatro di palazzi di Roma (Rome, 1699); some of the original plates are housed in the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome. Domenico de’ Rossi’s Studio d’architettura civile (1702–21) provides an architectural record of the city of Rome in 286 plates engraved by Specchi.

Alessandro SPECCHI (Roma, 1668 - Roma, 1729)

Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He studied architecture in the studio of Carlo Fontana and assisted in the construction of Fontana’s chapel of St Fabian (c. 1706) in S Sebastiano fuori le Mura in Rome. From at least 1684 he produced sets of architectural engravings. Many of these were published by Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi and his son Domenico de’ Rossi ( fl 1684–1721), including 52 engravings for Quarto libro del nuovo teatro di palazzi di Roma (Rome, 1699); some of the original plates are housed in the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome. Domenico de’ Rossi’s Studio d’architettura civile (1702–21) provides an architectural record of the city of Rome in 286 plates engraved by Specchi.