Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"
date: label: Date
content: 1685–1700
name: label: Artist
content: Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709
label: Architect
content: Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2599
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, pen and bistre ink, brush and brown wash, gray water colors
label: Dimensions
content: 32 × 36.5 cm (12 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.)