Disegno delle fabriche prospettive e piazza fatte novamente in Roma d'ordine della Sta di N. S. Papa Alexandro VII, 1663. Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640-1678, printmaker. 1663 Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican The print depicts 14 sites in 15 vignettes illustrating construction projects completed under the reign of Chigi Pope Alexander VII, giving prominence to Saint Peter's (which appears with Bernini's colonnade), and including the Piazza Colonna, the Pantheon, or Santa Maria della Rotunda, S. Maria della Pace, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Chiesa di Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Por
Disegno delle fabriche prospettive e piazza fatte novamente in Roma d'ordine della Sta di N. S. Papa Alexandro VII, 1663. Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640-1678, printmaker. 1663 Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican The print depicts 14 sites in 15 vignettes illustrating construction projects completed under the reign of Chigi Pope Alexander VII, giving prominence to Saint Peter's (which appears with Bernini's colonnade), and including the Piazza Colonna, the Pantheon, or Santa Maria della Rotunda, S. Maria della Pace, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Chiesa di Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Porta del Popolo, the interior and exterior of S. Maria del Popolo, Santa Maria di Montesanto, Santa Maria dei Miracoli and others. Sites are lettered "A" through "R," but skip the letters J and K. Drawn and etched by Falda. Ref.: The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 47, pt. 1, Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century: Giovanni Battista Falda, no. 4 (252); Folger Shakespeare Library ART Box R763 (size L) Imprint: Rome. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower center, denote Pecci-Blunt's name for her collection, "Roma Sparita." The stamps contain the text; "Roma Sparita, ,
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