Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Rmo. P.F. Ludovico Zerbela Australis Americe Seraphici Ordinis Commissario Generali huius Claustralis Topiarii Auctori

Accession number: 
69-165
Record number: 
69-165-4
JCB call number: 
BA675 S939t
Image title: 
Rmo. P.F. Ludovico Zerbela Australis Americe Seraphici Ordinis Commissario Generali huius Claustralis Topiarii Auctori
Place image published: 
[Lima]
Image date: 
[1675]
Image function: 
plate; following leaf 23
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
10.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
14.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19 cm.
Page dimension width: 
14 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
View of the main cloister of the monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru. Includes fountains and topiary.
Source creator: 
Suárez de Figueroa, Miguel
Source Title: 
Templo de N. grande patriarca San Francisco de la provincia de los doze apostoles de le Peru en la Ciudad de los Reyes
Source place of publication: 
Lima
Source date: 
1675
notes: 
Text describes some of the landscaping details of the garden and attributes its design to Capitan Sebastian de Cubas. Luis de Cervela was the builder of the church and monastery of San Francisco in Lima, Peru, as well as its general commissary from 1669 to 1674. The architect of the main cloister of the monastery was Constantino Vasconcelos. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
References: 
Camilloni, H.R. "Architectural Principles ... San Francisco, Lima," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 235-253
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings: 
Franciscan monasteries
Subject headings: 
Franciscans--Peru