1934.214: The Cortile del Belvedere; verso: The Pyramid of Cestius and the Porta San Paolo

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1934.214

People

Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian (Fiesole, Italy c. 1537 - c. 1591 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to (?) Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian (Settignano, Italy 1511 - 1592 Florence, Italy)

Title

The Cortile del Belvedere; verso: The Pyramid of Cestius and the Porta San Paolo

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c.1552-1553

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297665

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink with traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink with traces of black chalk

Dimensions

23.5 x 34.2 cm (9 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., brown ink: belvedere ritratto dalla finestra nella cappella del papa dove stanno i musici
• inscription: verso, l.r., brown ink: porta S. Pagolo
• watermark: Crossed arrows, close to Briquet 6291

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Leonard Opdycke, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Leonard Opdycke

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

1934.214

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 51, pp. 44-45; vol. 2, repr. figs. 45 (recto) and 46 (verso)...
• Prof. James S. Ackerman, The Cortile del Belvedere, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, 1954), pp. 24-25, 68, 73, 75-77, 89, 124; cat. no. 30, p. 216; under cat. no....
• Nicholas Snow, Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: A Detroit Adventure in the Arts, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1960), cat. no. 11, p. 13
• The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures, Books: An Exhibition in Honor of Leila Cook Barber, Professor of Art, Vassar College, 1931-1968, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1968), cat. no. 2, p. 4 as Bartolomeo Ammanati (?)
• Cristina Acidini, "Roma antica", Roma Antica e i disegni di architettura agli Uffizi, ed. Franco Borsi, Officina (Rome, 1976), pp. 27-166, p. 32 under no. 4/2559A; recto repr. fig. 4, p. 33
• The Origins of the Italian Veduta, exh. cat., Brown University (Providence, RI, 1978), p. 9; cat. no. 18, pp. 37-38; recto repr. fig. 18, p. 78, as Ammanati, attrib.
• Suzanne Boorsch, The Building of the Vatican: The Papacy and Architecture, brochure, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, Winter 1982- Spring 1983), p. 55, repr. recto p. 51
• Elizabeth Coombs, "Low Energy X-Radiography of Works of Art on Paper" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1987), Unpublished, passim
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 38, n.p., repr. (color) as Bartolommeo Ammannati (?)
• Piernicola Pagliara, "Nuovi documenti sulla costruzione della Cappella Sistina", La Cappella Sistina; La volta restaurata: Il trionfo del colore, ed. Pierluigi de Vecchi, Istituto Geografico De Agostini with Nippon Television Network, Tokyo (Novara, 1992), p. 261; f.n. 28, p. 270
• William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto, Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1995), recto repr. fig. 352, p. 270
• Lisa Oehler, Rom in der Graphik des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1997), verso: repr. fig. 25.1, p. 113; p. 115
• Alessandro Cecchi, "Alcuni disegni del soggiorno romano di Battista Naldini", ed. Wolfgang Liebenwein, Deutscher Kunstverlag (München, Germany, 1998), p. 54; rectp repr. fig. 3, p. 55; f.n. 9, p. 57
• Arnold Nesselrath, "Fra Angelico's and Benozzo Gozzoli's composition in the murals of the private Chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican", Fra Angelico and the Chapel of Nicholas V, ed. Allen Duston O.P., Edizioni Musei Vaticani (Vatican City, 1999), pp. 72-97, p. 75; verso repr. fig. 1, p. 76; f.n. 15, p.
• Christel Thiem, Das romische Reiseskizzenbuch des Florentiners Giovanni Battista Naldini 1560/61, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Munich and Berlin, Germany, 2002), cat. no. 11 (verso), pp. 56-7, repr.; cat. no. 35 (recto), pp. 110-13....
• Henry Dietrich Hernández, "Raphael's Bibbiena Chapel in the Vatican Palace", Functions and Decorations: Art and Ritual at the Vatican Palace in the Middle..., ed. Tristan Weddigen, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana / Brepols Publishers (Vatican City and Turnhout, Belgium, 2003), pp. 115-130, recto repr. fig. 11, p. 123; pp. 125-126; f.n. 42, p. 125
• Vitale Zanchettin, "Il Cortile della Pigna: storia e conservazione", Bollettino dei Monumenti Musei e Gallerie Pontificie: XXXIV-2016, Edizioni Musei Vaticani (Vatican City, 2017), pp. 267-313, pp. 280-288, repr. p. 288 as fig. 11

Exhibition History

• The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures, Books, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 05/02/1968 - 06/09/1968

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