Within the vast collection of drawings and prints of the National University Library of Turin, a prominent role belongs to the so-called corpus juvarrianum, the name by which the drawings testifying to the work of Filippo Juvarra and his collaborators are identified. For the most part, the collection was acquired between 1762 and 1763, with the exception of the volume preserved today with the collocation RIS 59.4, which came as a gift to the library in 1857 and is the only one completely designed by Juvarra and for this reason considered by critics to be among the most representative of Juvarra’s genius. The documents in the corpus give a well-rounded profile of the artist from Messina, testifying to the artistic thinking of the architect who most of all contributed in the 1700s to giving Turin the urbanistic layout that still characterizes it today. The corpus consists not only of drawings of architectural plans, but also of views, stage sets for the theater, and drawings of objects related to the decorative arts.
