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Reference number

SM 45/2/25

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing by ? Luigi Trezza or another unidentified Veronese source, ? 5-7 May 1780

Aspect

Half-plan and half-cross section of La Madonna di Campagna in Circa due Miglia lontano di Verona

Scale

bar scale - ? Veronese piedi

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (645 x 466)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

VF with 3 six-pointed stars above and Imperial with 3 crescents below

Notes

Close in the method of presentation and drawn to half the same scale as another drawing ( see Verona: Church of San Bernardino, Pellegrini mortuary chapel), and on the same watermarked paper and also pricked for transfer, the drawings seem to be related and may be copies from the same source.

Designed by Sanmicheli in 1559 (the year of his death), the pilgrimage church of the Madonna di Campagna (Maria di Campagna) is located three miles south-east from the centre of Verona. It has a circular plan enclosing an octagon, and is circled by a low Tuscan colonnade supporting a lean-to roof. The cylindrical body of the church supports a drum and dome, and is approached through a portal and antechamber.

See general note regarding Sanmicheli and Luigi Trezza under Italy: Verona: Gran Guardia Vecchia

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.306

Level

Drawing

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