Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"
Object Details
- Artist
- Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709
- Architect
- Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- View from below of a colonnade, having a niche in the middle. On top of the lateral parts is an entablature; on top of the central one is a circular pediment. The plan of the architecture is shown in the right half. Framing black stripe, except above. Verso: Some geometrical perspective drawings in red and black crayon.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1685–1700
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-2599
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pencil, pen and bistre ink, brush and brown wash, gray water colors
- Dimensions
- 32 × 36.5 cm (12 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-2599
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fb441796-4fb5-4523-b86f-1712b919d187
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