Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (later S. Lorenzo in Miranda), Rome. c.1759-64

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Italy 1759-1764 (15)
  - Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (later S. Lorenzo in Miranda), Rome, c.1759-64, measured drawings (3)

Soane, Rome, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. SM 44/8/15. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo Ardon Bar-Hama

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Reference number

SM 44/8/15

Purpose

Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (later S. Lorenzo in Miranda), Rome. c.1759-64

Aspect

[3] Details of the entablature and its soffit, and the column base

Scale

to a scale larger than 1 and 2

Inscribed

dimensions given

Signed and dated

c.1759-64

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on coarse laid paper (360 x 440)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

The drawings show the temple's portico with 12 Corinthian columns - eight to the front by three deep at the side. Palladio had published it in Book IV of the Quattro Libri and commented 'I saw part of it demolished, that was then standing' (Isaac Ware edition, p.90). Built from AD 141, the temple was made into a church in the 11th century and again in 1602 when the remains of the cella were adapted with the portico retained. Dance seems to have lost interest in his study of the building since none of the drawings are finished and, for example, the capital is only partly drawn in [SM 44/8/14] and not detailed in [SM 44/8/15].

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Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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