Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, details of the exterior and interior order

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Dimensionsh x w: 41,2 x 27,4 cm

Inventory numberNMH CC 1341

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

Other titlesTitle (sv): Il Tempietto i S. Pietro in Monotrio, Rom. Profiler Title (en): Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, details of the exterior and interior order Previous: The Tempietto, S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome. Profiles

DescriptionCatalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat. no. 76) Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over grey chalk, straightedge and freehand, 41.2 × 27.4 cm NM H CC 1341 PAPER: trimmed edges, traces of skinning along the left edge WATERMARK: Tree 28 INSCRIPTIONS: questa sie la chornice del tempio di sant petro a montorio in roma (at centre, within the architrave); Tempietto di S. Pietro in Montorio architettato dal Bramante (at the lower edge, in later hand); various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished EXHIBITED: Millon, Smyth 1994, 659, Cat. no. 389 Profiles of architectural elements linked to the half section of the Tempietto, NM H CC 1309a (Cat. no. 75) by means of letters. The details illustrate the following: “a”, base of the pedestal of the interior order (upper left); “o”, upper moulding of the pedestal of the interior order (upper left, below “a”); “A”, entablature of the exterior order (upper centre); “b”, cornice of the exterior balustrade; profile of the capital of the interior order (lower right, key letter missing, see detail profile keyed with letter “G” in NM H CC 1343v, Cat. no. 78); upper moulding of the pedestal of the interior order (lower centre, key letter missing), identical to the detail at upper left, keyed “o”. LITERATURE: Ackerman 1961, catalogue, 83–112; Wittkower 1964; Tolnay 1967; Borsi et alii 1976, 132–145; Wittkower 1978; Millon, Smyth 1988, 91–187; Argan, Contardi 1990, 322–335; Millon, Smyth 1994; Bedon 1995; D’Orgeaux 2001; Zanchettin 2009; Bellini 2011, I, 293–347 OTHER DRAWINGS: Florence, Uffizi 2041Ar, Giovanni Antonio Dosio, c. 1580–90 [end]

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