Francesco Borromini

Studies for the Nave and Narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome (recto and verso)

ca. 1646–55
Black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink and black chalk (verso)
27.9 × 20.6 cm (11 × 8.1 in)

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