(a) Unknown location, circular building, half plan (upper left); (b) Rome: Temple of Portunus, plan (upper centre); (c) Sicily?, unidentified Byzantine building, plan (upper right); (d) unknown location, unidentified Roman baths, plan (lower left); (e) unknown location, unidentified Roman baths, plan (lower right)
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Dimensionsh x w: 43 x 57 cm
Inventory numberNMH CC 1338
AcqusitionDonated 1941 by Eric Langenskiöld. Formerly in the Cronstedt collection, Fullerö
Other titlesTitel (sv): Rekonstruktioner av antika romerska tempel m.m., "templo dela fama" och "temple maria a pont sainte minerva". Planer Titel (en): (a) Unknown location, circular building, half plan (upper left); (b) Rome: Temple of Portunus, plan (upper centre); (c) Sicily?, unidentified Byzantine building, plan (upper right); (d) unknown location, unidentified Roman baths, plan (lower left); (e) unknown location, unidentified Roman baths, plan (lower right) Tidigare: Reconstructions of Roman Antique Temples etc., "templo dela fama" and "temple maria a pont sainte minerva". Plans
DescriptionRes. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no. 53) Anon. late 16th century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over black chalk, straightedge and freehand, 57/56.2 × 43 cm NM H CC 1338 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 trimmed to the size of the support sheet. Damaged on the lower right side WATERMARK: Tree 28 WATERMARK OF THE SECONDARY SUPPORT: Pilgrim 7 INSCRIPTIONS: Temple maria a pont sancte minerva (with reference to building (b); templo del fama (with reference to building (d). Various measurements MEASUREMENTS : Roman palmi; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished Compilation folio with several building plans. Only building (b) can be identified with certainty. The drawings: (a) Left half plan of a circular building with ambulatory. (b) Plan of the temple of Portunus, in the Forum Boarium, beside the Tiber. The present temple was built c. 80–70 BC, as a replacement for one dating from the late 4th or 3rd century BC. It is a tetrastyle pseudoperipteral with fluted Ionic columns. The measurements agree with those in the plans at Windsor and Chatsworth. Several Renaissance architects produced perspectival representations of the building. One was published by Palladio: Palladio 1570, IV, 48–52. (c) A Greek cross plan inscribed in a square, preceded by a narrow nave with a tricorn chapel on each side and entered through a large concave exedra with a tetrastyle portico. In the CCA plan there are two staircases, six columns instead of four in the narthex and two pairs of columns instead of one in the vestibule. The fact that none of the plans are measured suggests that the building is an architectural fantasy. According to Fairbairn (1998, p. 646), it could be a reconstruction of an early Christian building. In Ferrante (1638) and De Rossi (1684) the plan is inscribed: Questo tempio di ordine Corintio è in Sicilia. The drawing in Chatsworth bears a later inscription reading: corintio e in Sicilia. (d) Inscribed templo del fama, the plan resembles that of a Roman bath. A similar drawing at the Albertina is inscribed el tenpio della fortuna, and in a later hand, Palestrina. The measurements of the two drawings agree, but the Albertina drawing has four circular staircases on the sides of the central circular room. The plans do not relate to any known building of the sanctuary at Palestrina. (e) In the Chatsworth drawing the perimeter of the central hall is shaped by four semi circular apses. LITERATURE: Ferrante 1638; De Rossi 1684, II, 47; Montfaucon 1719, II, part I, XLVIII, 126 [end]
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