Beskrivning: Motivkategori: Arkitektur, sakralarkitektur, kyrkor
Plan: Rom, Italien
Övrigt: NMH THC 8223 utgör en 1700-talskopia

Verso: Profilskiss?

Description: Motivkategori: Arkitektur, sakralarkitektur, kyrkor
Plan: Rom, Italien
Övrigt: NMH THC 8223 utgör en 1700-talskopia

Verso: Sketch of a moulding?

Catalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no.130)

Carlo Maderno (1556–1629), his workshop
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, brown wash. Principal lines scored 
with black chalk, straightedge and compass, 39 × 64.5 cm

NM H CC 2078

PAPER: trimmed around the profile of the lantern, cut off at the top. Folded in the middle of the sheet and at the impost of the lantern. Vertical fold reinforced on the verso with a glued strip of paper. On the verso and its reinforcement, a half arcade is visible

WATERMARK: Fleur de Lys 3

INSCRIPTIONS: Qui va il piano del cocholone (in black chalk, between the vault and the roof of the chancel, apparently in Carlo Maderno’s hand); tuto 17 ¾ (between the vault and the roof of the nave); various measurements

MEASUREMENTS: Roman palmi; no scale

PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hibbard 1971, 150, fig. 33a; Lugano 1999, 342, Cat. no. 181, fig. 31; Ferrara 2003, 39, fig. 15

EXHIBITIONS: Lugano 1999, 342, Cat. no. 181, fig. 31

The construction of the Roman Church of the Theatine Order of Sant’Andrea della Valle began in 1591 under the patronage of Cardinal Alfonso Gesualdo and according to plans provided by Francesco Grimaldi and Giacomo Della Porta. The supervision of the works was given to Francesco da Volterra, who was succeeded in 1596 by Pietro Paolo Olivieri. The first four chapels and vaulting of the nave between them were completed in 1599, but after that work was interrupted for lack of funds. In 1606 the Theatines began to acquire properties for the extension of the church and monastery and in 1608 a new patron, Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto, granted funding to complete the church. In May the architect Carlo Maderno was appointed to provide revised plans for the church and to draw up estimates for the cost of completing the edifice. The drawing in the Nationalmuseum is apparently an early design for Sant'Andrea, outlined in Maderno’s workshop. The large size of the sheet, the high degree of definition of the ornamental details and the use of wash to emphasise light and dark effects indicate that it was intended as a presentation drawing. The design shows the interior elevation of the church as it was built with minor variations and as represented in a plan attached to a contract with the master masons dated 17 
June 1611 (Fig. 1, Roma, Archivio di Stato, Congregazioni Religiose Maschili, Teatini di S. Andrea della Valle, 2110, 21, f. 192; Hibbard 1971, 149–151, fig. 33b), which may also date from 1608. In the section, the Piccolomini monuments installed in 1614 above the archway of the first chapel are not represented and neither are the windows built in the vault above this bay and the corresponding bay in the apse. The two Corinthian piers in the choir and the corresponding ribs of the vault are also lacking. The decoration of the drum and dome, as well as the design of the lantern, do not agree with the Stockholm drawing, as they were redesigned around 1620 with the collaboration of Francesco Borromini. The façade profile is a plain wall, suggesting that in this early phase Maderno had not yet conceived a project for it. Hibbard recognises Maderno’s hand in the measurements given in black chalk between vault and roof. They apparently illustrate Maderno’s afterthought of elevating the height of the roof from the initial design. The new level is outlined in black chalk at a distance of 27 ¼ palmi from the outside of the vault.
 
LITERATURE: Hibbard 1971, 146–155; Pallottino 1999; Ferrara 2003
 
OTHER DRAWINGS: Rome, AS, Corporazioni Religiose Maschili, Teatini di S. Andrea della Valle, 2110, 21, ex fol. 192, Carlo Maderno (1556–1629), his workshop; Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NM H THC 2546, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728); NM H THC 8223, Carl Hårleman (1700–1753), copy after NM H CC 2078; NM H CC 852r, 853r–v, 1184r–v, 2069r–v, Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1779) 
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Titel (sv): Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rom. Längdsektion
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