Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Porta Pia

Accession Number: 
135567
Order Title: 
Archivision Base Collection--16,370 images
Type of View: 
partialView
View Title: 
Tower, detail of lateral angels and the coat of arms of Pope Pio IV Medici featuring the family insignia (balls or palle) surmounted by the keys of the church
Date of View: 
5/1/1994
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Culture: 
Italian
Subject: 
Pius IV, Pope, 1499-1565
Subject: 
City planning
Work Types: 
Architecture; public works; city gates
Work Types: 
buildings; gatehouses
Preferred Title: 
Porta Pia
Agent Display: 
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564); Pius IV, Pope (Italian patron, 1499-1565)
Date: 
1561-1564 (creation)
Materials: 
brick; marble
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Locations: 
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Classification: 
Architecture