Design for a loggia
Object Details
- Workshop of
- Carlo Rainaldi, 1611 - 1691
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- On top, the elevation. Part of the left half only is outlined. Bottom: the plan, scheme of a triumphal arch. A Palladian arch with two rows of three columns each, and with projecting central opening. Pentagonal walls are shown laterally. Thin fronts are to show statues in niches flanked by pilasters in the ground sections, reliefs in the upper sections. A balustrade with plants in pots is on top. From the roof rises a pedestal of soil, with a statue surrounded by trees. Measurements are inscribed.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1660–75
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3670
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Lead pencil, pen and ink, bistre on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.1 × 27.8 cm (13 13/16 × 10 15/16 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_1938-88-3670
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq483c234ff-e1c1-4c33-9b7e-d40e87056d67
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