The architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and the painter and architect Ludwig Zanth (1796-1857) are in Rome and move into the fourth floor of Casa Buti at the suggestion of Karl Joseph Begas’.

Primary sources

• Letter from Hittorff to Jean-François-Joseph Lecointe dated 31.1.1823, Histories Archiv der Stadt Köln, Nachlass Hittorff, 1053, Voyage d’Italie, cf. Hella Robels, Das Projekt eines kleinen Thorvaldsen-Museums von Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, op. cit., p.237 and 240.

Other references

• Hella Robels, ‘Das Projekt eines kleinen Thorvaldsen-Museums von Jakob Ignaz Hittorff’, in: Bott, G., Bertel Thorvaldsen: Untersuchungen zu seinem Werk und zur Kunst seiner Zeit, Köln 1977, p. 237 og 240.

Last updated 03.01.2019