Beskrivning: Motivkategori: Grekiska, romerska och egyptiska antiklämningar, arkitektur, detaljer
Plats: Italien

Res. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no. 38)

Anon. late 16th-century French draughtsman, Hand B of the Cronstedt Collection
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, freehand, 27.8/28 × 43.1/42.8 cm

NM H CC 1411v

PAPER: the right half of the sheet is not visible because it was lined on to a secondary support of thick rough late 16th-century paper

WATERMARK: none visible

MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale

PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941

BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished

The drawing recalls the decoration of a frieze once located in the Medieval church of S. Basilio ai Pantani, engraved in 1580 by Diana Scultori (Fig. 1). The edifice, built by the ruins of the Temple of Mars Ultor in the Forum of Augustus, was demolished in 1924. 
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