Rome: Forum, Temple of Castor and Pollux, (known as Tre Colonne), Corinthian capital and base, perspective and orthogonal elevation

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Dimensionsh x w: 57 x 43 cm

Inventory numberNMH CC 1362

AcqusitionDonated 1941 by Eric Langenskiöld. Formerly in the Cronstedt collection, Fullerö

Other titlesTitle (sv): Korintiskt kapitäl och bas från Vespasianustemplet, Forum Romanum, Rom Title (en): Rome: Forum, Temple of Castor and Pollux, (known as Tre Colonne), Corinthian capital and base, perspective and orthogonal elevation Previous: Corinthian Capital and Base from the Temple of Vespasian, Forum Romanum, Rome

DescriptionCatalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat. no. 22) Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over grey chalk, straightedge and freehand, 57.6/56.2 × 42.6 cm NM H CC 1362 PAPER: medium weight, folded in the middle, lined on to a secondary support of rough late 16th-century paper using a starch paste and trimmed to the size of the support sheet WATERMARK: Tree 28 INSCRIPTIONS: base et chapitello de tre Calonne In Campe vachinne Sot Campe dole (at lower right). Various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi. Scale key at the upper left with 12 units [once] = 3.4 cm long PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished The composition closely recalls Antonio Labacco's plate of the capital and base of the Tre Colonne published in his Libro appartenente all'architettura (Fig. 1). However, the Stockholm drawing differs from the print both in its measurements (the print measures only 32.2×23.2 cm) and in the straight orthogonal representation of the base of the order (Labacco represents it in perspective). Two plates in Philibert Delorme’s Le premier tome de l’Architecture (Figs. 2–3) can possibly be regarded as closer prototypes owing to their mode of representation, even if the format (42×33 cm) is smaller. Also, in contrast with Delorme, where measurements are given in ancient Roman palmi, the Cronstedt draughtsman consistently gives measurements in modern Roman palmi. OTHER DRAWINGS: Florence, Uffizi, 1762Ar, anon. Italian draughtsman, first half of the 16th century; Turin, AS, Ligorio, Antichità XV, fol. 145v, Pirro Ligorio, 1573–ante 1580; Windsor, RL, vol. A 16, Buildings and Architectural Ornaments, fol. 17, inv. 10756r, Antonio Labacco, mid-16th century. Prints: Labacco, 1552, 21; Delorme, 1568, VI, 193v and 194v; Palladio 1570, IV, 69 Fig. 1, Antonio Labacco, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Corinthian capital and base, print from Libro d'Antonio Labacco appartenente a l'architettura nel quale si figurano alcune nobili antiquità di Roma, [Rome] 1552, pl. 17 Figs. 2–3, Philibert Delorme, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Corinthian base, section and elevation; capital, print from Le premier tome de l’architecture, Paris 1568, VI, fols. 193v and 194v [end]

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