Design for a tabernacle, elevation (right) and plan on three levels (left), second half of the 16th century

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Dimensionsh x w: 42 x 50 cm

Inventory numberNMH CC 1328

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

Other titlesTitel (sv): Tabernakel av en centralbyggnads form. Plan och ofärdig elevation Titel (en): Design for a tabernacle, elevation (right) and plan on three levels (left), second half of the 16th century Tidigare: Tabernacle in the Shape of a Central Plan Building. Plan and unfinished elevation

DescriptionRes. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat. no. 83) Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over black chalk, compass, straightedge and freehand, 42 × 54.8/55.3 cm NM H CC 1328 PAPER: medium weight, lined on to a secondary support of thick, rough late 16th-century paper using a starch paste and trimmed to the size of the support sheet WATERMARK: Unicorn 30 WATERMARK OF THE SECONDARY SUPPORT: Pilgrim 7 INSCRIPTIONS: A (on the left, inscribed in the frieze and cornice at the base of the drum); F (at centre right, in the pedestal and base of the exterior order of the drum); B (at lower right, on the cornice and base of the exterior order of the drum); .St. Pietro (at bottom edge); various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; scale at centre left, turned ninety degrees, with 4 units [palmi] = 8.3 cm and 12 units [once] = 2.05 cm PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished Design for a three-storey tabernacle on a centralised octagonal plan. Eight free-standing Corinthian columns on pedestals project from the wall, supporting an entablature breaking forward above them so that they create four porch-like fronts. Above the entablature is an attic storey, crowned by a balustrade decorated with obelisks, which support a domed structure on a circular plan. Some of the decorative elements are incomplete. In the plan on the right, the attic storey and the drum of the dome are outlined with dotted lines. Centralised multi-storey structures were common in tabernacles during the second half of the 16th century, depending on the model of the precious tabernacle of Sixtus V in the Sistine Chapel at Santa Maria Maggiore (probably designed by Domenico Fontana and built in 1587–90. See Madonna 1993, 394–399.). The drawing in Stockholm may be compared to a similar one in Florence attributed to Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Uffizi 2018A (Borsi 1976, 361, n. 438). [end]

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