Ichnographia Seu Vestigium Areae Vaticanae ab Alexandro VII Porticibus Exornatae

ICHNOGRAPHIA TEMPLI S. PETRI IN VATICANO: ex modulis Bramantis, et Michaelis Angeli Bonarote qui crucis formam quadripartito prescripsere, tribus additis utrinque sacellis, cum Porticu in vestibulo, Carolo Maderno Architecto; ICHNOGRAPHIA SEU VESTIGIUM AREAE VATICANAE AB ALEXANDRO VII PORTICIBUS EXORNATAE: Eq. Laurentio Bernino Architecto / Franc. Bufalinus delin.; Nicolaus Belin Sculp.

Plan of Bernini's colonnade, with numerical legend.

Etching, 1684, signed in plate at bottom. Work from the rare series Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque acelebrioribus architectis inventi nunc tandem suis cum plantis ac mensuris a Jo. Jacobo de Rubeis Romano 1684.

Rare and valuable edition containing beautiful plates, copper-engraved by G. Colin, G.F. Venturini, N. Belin, V. Mariotti, G.B. Falda, V. Regnart, on drawings by Bernini, Michelangelo, Borromini, Vignola and Maderno depicting architectural plans, elevations and sections of churches in Rome and other cities.

Beautiful impression, with margins, in very good condition.

Bibliografia

Le Blanc C., MANUEL DE L'AMATEUR D'ESTAMPES, V. 1 p. 250, 1854-59; C.A. Petrucci, CATALOGO GENERALE DELLE STAMPE TRATTE DAI RAMI INCISI POSSEDUTI DALLA CALCOGRAFIA NAZIONALE, 1418, p. 22, 1953.