Print Specifics:
  • Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1844
  • Publisher: Johann Georg Heck
  • Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). 
  • Dimensions: 9 x 11.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
  • Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
  • Reverse side: Blank
  • Note: Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed

Legend to the illustrations in the print:
Figure 1.  Interior of the lnvalides' church in Paris 2.  Church of St. Louis in Munich 3.  Werder church in Berlin 4.  The chapel of St. Ferdinand at Sablonville 5.  The church Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome 6, 7. The church della Consolazione in Todi 8.  Ground plan of a church in the form of a Latin cross 9.  Plan of the church San Andrea in Mantua 10-12. The chapel of the Knights of Malta in St. Petersburg 13. The clock tower in Venice.

The Chapel Of The Knights Of Malta In St. Petersburg. The Emperor Paul I. had given a palace in St. Petersburg to the Knights of Malta, and permitted them at the same time to erect a Catholic chapel. At that time Giacomo Quaranghi lived in St. Petersburg (born in 1744 at Bergamo, and died there in 1820), and the knights applied to him for a design for the chapel, which would certainly have been very beautiful if they had executed the portico he designed. But instead of this, the building, founded on the 23d of August, 1798, received a facade which is represented in  fig. 11, which has four Corinthian half columns, and two small columns with a gable as door ornament; fig. 10 represents the ground plan and the manner in which the chapel is united with the palace, and fig. 12 the lateral section of the chapel. The interior is in the basilica form, ending in a large apsis. Two rows of yellow marble columns divide the church into three aisles 51 feet high. The breadth of the chapel is 50 feet, its length 100 feet.
 
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