Cortile del Palazzo Altemps abitato dall'Em[inentissi]mo, e R[everendissi]mo Sig[nor]e Cardinal Melchior Di Polignac Ministro della Maestà Cristianissima in Roma, magnificamente ornato col Disegno del eruditissimo Cavalier Pietro Leone Ghezzi, di Damaschi, Veluti, Broccati, e trine d'oro ...: in occasione della nascita Del Real Delfino Di Francia il di 26 Novembre 1729

Colonelli Sciarra, Salvatore, Vasconi, Filippo, Louis [Gefeierte Pers.], Colonnelli Sciarra, Salvatore [Ill.], Vasconi, Filippo [Bearb.], Polignac, Melchior de [Bearb.], Ghezzi, Pier Leone [Bearb.], Ludwig [Bearb.] · 1729 · 2 pictures

An engraved print from 1729 by Salvatore Colonelli Sciarra and Filippo Vasconi, after a design by Pietro Leone Ghezzi, celebrating the birth of the French Dauphin with a decorated courtyard of the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, made for Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, the French ambassador. The two pictures show the same view of a courtyard hung with damask, velvet, brocade and gold lace, with arcaded side walls, a central stage-like altar, and a carriage group in the sky above. A designer might take its dense architectural framing, symmetrical perspective and festival draping as models for ceremonial decoration.

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