Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, plan on two levels

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Dimensionsh x w: 41,2 x 27,7 cm

Inventory numberNMH CC 1309A recto

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

Other titlesTitle (sv): Il Tempietto i S. Pietro in Monotrio, Rom. Plan Title (en): Rome: San Pietro in Montorio, Tempietto, plan on two levels Previous: The Tempietto, S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome. Plan

DescriptionCatalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no 74) Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection Pen and brown ink over grey chalk, compass and freehand, 41.2 × 27.7/27.9 cm NMH CC 1309Ar PAPER: trimmed edges, traces of skinning and remnants of paper along the lower edge WATERMARK: Tree 28 INSCRIPTIONS: nombre 15 (in the upper left corner). Various measurements MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished Donato Bramante built the Tempietto between 1499 and 1502 in the cloister of San Pietro in Montorio, on the supposed site of St Peter’s crucifixion. Bramante’s contemporaries immediately associated the Tempietto with models of antiquity and considered it the climax of modern architecture. The Stockholm draughtsman provides two exact measured plans of the Tempietto, one at the base of the order, the other at the base of the drum. On the upper left corner is a large-scale detail of the plan of the drum. The lantern, represented on the plan as a crown of small columns, is not the one built by Bramante (damaged in c. 1530), and neither is it the present one. The elevation of the lantern, depicted in NM H CC 1309br (Cat. no. 75), corresponds to a drawing by Aristotele da Sangallo (Florence, Uffizi A 4318r) and to another one by an anonymous French draughtsman (New York, Metropolitan, Goldschmidt Scrapbook, 68.769.47), dating from the second half of the 16th century. However, no documentary evidence demonstrates whether this new project was ever built. During the 17th century, the hemispherical dome, the lantern and the stairs leading to the crypt were partially altered. LITERATURE: Bruschi 1969, 989–995; Günther 1974; Werdehausen 1994; Günther 2001; Rowland 2006/2007; Günther 2010; Freiberg 2014 [end]

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