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The Farnesina (Palazzo Chigi)

After: Pietro Ferrerio (Italian, about 1600–1654)
Architect: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481–1536)
Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (Italian, 1627–1691)
Architect: Giuseppe Valeriano (Italian, 1542–1596)
Architect: Giacomo della Porta (Italian, 1532–1601)
1655

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 22.86 x 38.74 cm (9 x 15 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 33.02 x 44.77 cm (13 x 17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barbara G. and Stephen A. Bergquist
Accession Number2008.692
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlate from the series Palazzi di Roma dei più celebri architetti
InscriptionsIn plate, below: PALAZZO DE GHIGI ALLA LVNGARA ARCHITETTVRA DEL FAMOSISSIMO BALDASSARRE PERVZZI DASIENA CHE FV ECCELENTE PITTOR E GIOMETRA / LANNO .MDXVIII
In plate lower left: Designiato da Pietro ferrerio
In plate, lower right: Scala di p.mi 20
ProvenanceJames A. Bergquist (Newton, MA); from whom purchased by Stephen A. Bergquist (Needham, MA), 2008; by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 17, 2008)