Beskrivning: Motivkategori: Grekiska, romerska och egyptiska antiklämingar, arkitektur
Plats: Italien

Res. Katalogtext: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat. no. 40)

Anon. French draughtsman, mid- to second half of the 16th century
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, construction line in black chalk,
grey wash, compass, straightedge and freehand, 59.5 × 43.6/44.3 cm

NM H CC 839

PAPER: folded in the middle, upper right corner and upper left edge repaired, small holes

WATERMARK: Grape 20

INSCRIPTIONS: various measurements

MEASUREMENTS: French pieds; no scale

PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941

BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished

The drawing is a longitudinal section and front elevation of a circular building, two storeys high, below a shallow dome. The edifice stands on a basement, andthere is a small entrance vestibule on columns at the front. The upper storey has eight round-headed windows set within large shell-headed niches. In the interior, shell-headed niches alternate with rectangular-plan niches on the cross-axis. The plan, the form of the window and the size of the dome resemble what is known as the Tempio della Tosse along the Via Tiburtina, near Tivoli. The edifice was built in the first half of the 4th century, and in the 10th century it was transformed into a church dedicated to the Virgin. The ruins of the temple are still visible today. The drawing, most likely intended as a reconstruction, displays several divergences
from reality, particularly regarding the exterior of the structure, which was not completely excavated during the Renaissance: the plan of the lower stage is perfectly circular, whereas the two rectangular niches on the cross-axis protruded on the exterior to the height of the lower storey; the dome has no central oculus and, even if archaeological evidence shows an earlier atrium, modern authors refer to a quite different structure from the vestibule in the drawing. The measurements inscribed in the building are in French pieds. The diameter of the
dome agrees with that of the standing building (c. 12.45 metres) and with the measurement given in Roman palmi in a drawing at the Albertina (inv. Egger 297r, Valori 1985, p. 57, XXXVIII). The drawing is traced on the same paper as NM H CC 1302 (Cat. no. 60) and of NM H CC 2296 (Cat. no. 46), which bear watermarks
that had long existed in France. No evident matches with watermarks published in the common repertoria could be found. According to Briquet (Briquet 1923, vol.
IV, pp. 643–44), a grape of such form and size associated with a monogram can be found in central and southern France during the last quarter of the 16th century.
A fantasy reconstruction of the Tempio della Tosse by Giovanni Battista Montano is in the Soane Museum SJSM (Fairbairn 1998, II, p. 670, n. 1150)

LITERATURE: Giuliani 1970, 203–215; Rasch 1998, 53–106

OTHER DRAWINGS: BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 30v, Giuliano da Sangallo, post 1464–ante 1516; Berlin, Kunstbibl., Hdz 4151, fols 72r–v, anon. Destailleur D2, 3rd quarter of 16th century; Florence, Uffizi, 689Av, Sallustio Peruzzi, post 1536–ante 1567; Montreal, CCA, Roman Sketchbook, fol. 50r, anon. Italian draughtsman of Montreal CCA, c. 1530; Turin, AS, Cod. A.II.7.J.20, fol. 21, Pirro Ligorio, 3rd quarter of 16th century; Vienna, Albertina, inv. Egger 297r and 298r, anon. Italian A, late 15th century; Windsor, RL 19286, Pirro Ligorio and the
Codex Ursiniano copyist; Windsor, RL 10843, fol. 47, Sangallo Copyist 2. 

Prints: for a complete list, see Rasch 1998, pp. 62–63 and plates 30–35 [end]

Titel (sv): Antik rundbyggnad. Sektion och fasad
Titel (en): Tivoli (Campagna Romana): Tempio della Tosse?, longitudinal section and front elevation
Tidigare: Antique Circular Building. Section and elevation