Locations unknown: (a) centralised building, plan (upper left); (b) Greek triumphal arch, plan (upper left); (c) centralised building [Temple of Licino and Juno?], plan (lower left); (d) circular building with hexastyle porch, plan (upper right); (e) Rome: Sacello Bracciolini, plan (centre right); (f) Palestrina: circular building, plan (lower right)
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Dimensionsh x w: 43,3 x 57,9 cm
Inventory numberNMH CC 1332
AcqusitionDonated 1941 by Eric Langenskiöld. Formerly in the Cronstedt collection, Fullerö
Other titlesTitel (sv): Rekonstruktioner av romerska centralbyggnader, "nella mure de Roma". Planer Titel (en): Locations unknown: (a) centralised building, plan (upper left); (b) Greek triumphal arch, plan (upper left); (c) centralised building [Temple of Licino and Juno?], plan (lower left); (d) circular building with hexastyle porch, plan (upper right); (e) Rome: Sacello Bracciolini, plan (centre right); (f) Palestrina: circular building, plan (lower right) Tidigare: Reconstructions of Roman Central Plan Buildings, "nella mure de Rome". Plans
DescriptionRes. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no. 50) Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over black chalk, light brown wash, compass, straightedge and freehand, 43.3/43.0 x 57.9/57.4 cm NM H CC 1332 PAPER: folded in the middle, laid on to a secondary support of thick rough late 16th-century paper using a starch paste. The drawing has been subsequently trimmed to a smaller size WATERMARK: Tree 28 WATERMARK OF THE SECONDARY SUPPORT: Pilgrim 7 INSCRIPTIONS: Nella mure de Roma (referring to the building (e); lume (referring to the building (f); various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langen - skiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished Compilation folio with central plan buildings. (a) A replica of this untraced circular building with four projecting chapels is at Chatsworth, Album XXXVI, fol. 11c. (b) Sallustio Peruzzi draws one of the piers of the arch with detailed measurements and inscribes it as “Archo Trio(n)fale / i(n) Brescia Grecia co(n) /Quattro di q(ue)sti / pilastri”. In the V&A Talman Album the arch is identified as “Archo in Grecia”. (c) An almost identical replica is at Chatsworth, Album XXXVI, fol. 10, with the three projecting chapels characterised by a circular inner perimeter. The inscription reads: “Tempio de Licino et Junoni”. (d) The only parallel, by an unknown 16th-century draughtsman, is in the collections of the CCA. Unlike the Stockholm drawing, three entrances are open in the middle of the apses and the rectangular niches along the ambulatory are deeper. The measurements tally, but their positioning is reversed. The Cronstedt draughtsman mistakenly records the width of the outer entrance vestibule as 32 palmi (instead of 16), showing less precision than the Montreal copyist. (e) Tomb by the Aurelian walls near the Porta Flaminia, characterised by a T-plan cella, with three short arms of equal length, each with a small semi circular niche. The only known such T-plan building is that named by Lanciani, Sacello Bracciolini (1891, 140 n. 1). It once stood near Porta Flaminia, incorporated into the city walls. Two copyists in the Albertina and in Windsor also show the front elevation of the building. Both the Stockholm and the Albertina copyists re¬cord a vaulted ceiling, not present in Sallustio Peruzzi’s drawing. (f) In the Windsor drawing, columns articulate the inner perimeter of the cella, not visible in the Stockholm and Chatsworth replicas. Both the Stockholm and the Chatsworth draughtsmen report the inscription “lume”, but only the Chatsworth one identifies the building as “di là da Palestrina, de matoni arotati”. [end]
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