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Italian Architectural Drawings

This catalogue by Anna Bortolozzi presents the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. It discusses 181 drawings dating from around 1570 to around 1620. Among them are works by Francesco da Volterra, Carlo Maderno and other Roman architects, executed for churches, chapels, palaces, gardens, and fountains. Many drawings are primary and almost unknown sources for late Mannerist and early Baroque architecture. Also included are plans and architectural details by French draughtsmen. They meticulously document ancient monuments, as well as buildings by the Renaissance masters Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Vignola.

Objects
Rome: St Peter’s, plan of the basement and drum on two levels, c. 1570
Rome: St Peter’s, profile of the architrave, frieze and cornice at the base of the drum (left); detail profile of a moulding (upper right); detail of the volutes and coffers of the cornice as seen from below (centre right); profile of the pedestal and base of the exterior order of the drum (centre, bottom); profile of the cornice and of the base of the interior order of the drum (bottom right)
Rome: Santa Maria in Traspontina, design for an altar dedicated to Saint Teresa of Avila, c. 1637
Untraced Doric arcade, elevation
Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, half section
Unknown location: Ionic aedicule, elevation and profile (upper centre and left);fountain basin or well head on three steps, profile (lower right)
Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, details of the exterior and interior order
Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, elevation of base and capital of the exterior order (above); profile of base and capital of the interior order (below)
Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, profile of the interior cornice of the drum (left) and of the entablature of the interior order (right)
Rome: St Peter’s, perspectival elevation of the cornice at the base of the drum (left); profile of the same cornice (right)
Rome: San Crisogono, Ionic capital, half elevation
Rome: Sant’Andrea in Via Flaminia, perspectival elevation of the façade with measured profiles of decorative details, c. 1551
Uppmätning av entablement samt palmettfriser
Rome: painted ceiling of an ancient edifice on the Oppio Hill
Rome: Santi Quirico e Giulitta, project for the sgraffito decoration of the façade, c. 1584
Rome: St Peter’s, elevation of three apertures and their framing orders on the exterior of the drum, c. 1570
Rome: St Peter’s, profile of the main exterior cornice at the base of the drum (up left); section and elevation of the model of the drum
Rome: St Peter’s, elevation of two and a half bays of the interior of the drum, c. 1570
Albano Laziale: (a) Unidentified two-storey tomb on the Via Appia, perspectival elevation and plan (left); (b) Tomb of Arruns, known as the Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, perspectival elevation and plan (upper right); (c) decorative moulding and cornice of a tomb (lower right)
Rome: Santa Susanna. Project for the coffered ceiling of the nave, 1596
Tivoli: (a) Pseudoperipteral temple (known as being of the Sybil), perspectival elevation (upper left) and plan (lower left); detailed profile of the podium and foundation (upper centre); (b) temple of Vesta, perspectival part elevation section and part plan (right)
(a) Corinthian colonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (left); (b) Compositecolonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (centre); (c) details of the elevation of the entablature, capital and base of a Corinthian, Composite and Doric order (right)
Rome: St Peter’s, section of the dome according to the design by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, c. 1546
Rome: Porta Santo Spirito, plan (left), left half elevation (right) and detail of a column shaft (bottom right)
Rome: Porta Santo Spirito, moulded profiles of cornices and bases
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