(a) Aquileia?: unidentified circular building, plan (upper left); (b) untraced: circular mausoleum with double-apsed entrance narthex, plan (upper right); (c) untraced: circular mausoleum with inner chamber, double-apsed entrance narthex and rectangular vestibule, plan (lower left); (d) untraced: circular mausoleum with double-apsed entrance narthex, plan (lower center); (e) untraced: tetrastyle circular edifice with apsidal chamber, plan (centre right)
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Dimensionsh x w: 56,4 x 42 cm
Inventory numberNMH CC 1336
AcqusitionDonated 1941 by Eric Langenskiöld. Formerly in the Cronstedt collection, Fullerö
Other titlesTitel (sv): Rekonstruktioner av romerska rundbyggnader Titel (en): (a) Aquileia?: unidentified circular building, plan (upper left); (b) untraced: circular mausoleum with double-apsed entrance narthex, plan (upper right); (c) untraced: circular mausoleum with inner chamber, double-apsed entrance narthex and rectangular vestibule, plan (lower left); (d) untraced: circular mausoleum with double-apsed entrance narthex, plan (lower center); (e) untraced: tetrastyle circular edifice with apsidal chamber, plan (centre right) Tidigare: Reconstructions of Roman Circular Buildings
DescriptionRes. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no. 52) 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, 56.4 × 42/42.8 cm NMH CC 1336 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 at the lower right corner WATERMARK: Tree 28 INSCRIPTIONS: various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished There is an exact replica of the compilation folio at Chatsworth, Album 36, f. 5r. None of the plans have been identified. Campbell (2004, III, p. 882) discusses a compilation sheet at Windsor, where the buildings (b) and (d) are reproduced, arguing that “given the presence of measurements [...], it is unlikely that they are pure inventions”. A plan with 15 niches is in the Uffizi that is similar to building (a); it is inscribed apresso acjujea vecchia (“near the ancient Aquileia”). [end]
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