- Title Information
- Title
- Disegno del modo di condurre l'obelisco detto uolgar[en]te la Guglia dal luogo remoto dietro la Chesa di S. Pietro / Domenico Fontana da mili diocesi di Como inventore et condvttore ; Natalis ...
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Bonifacio, Natale
- Name Part:
Date
- 1538-1592
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- engraver
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Fontana, Domenico
- Name Part:
Date
- 1543-1607
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- author
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Guerra, Giovanni
- Name Part:
Date
- 1544-1618
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- illustrator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Grassi, Bartolomeo
- Name Part:
Date
- active 1582-1600
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- printer
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- engravings (prints)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- it
- Place
- Place Term:
Text
- Romæ
- Publisher
- Apud Bartholomeum Grassium
- Date Issued
- MDLXXXVI
- Date Issued
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- 1586
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- ita
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 print : engraving ; 52 x 119 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Diagram illustrating how an obelisk (the Obelisco Vaticano) was moved and erected in Saint Peter's Square in Rome, with the use of elaborate scaffolds and horse-drawn pulleys. Includes dedication to Pope Sixtus V, references A-N detailing the engineering project, and views of Saint Peter's Basilica.
- Note
- Consists of 3 separate sheets joined together
- Note:
provenance
- From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66)
- Subject (LCSH)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Sixtus
- Name Part:
Terms of Address
- V, Pope
- Name Part:
Date
- 1520-1590
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Obelisks