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unidentified 18th C Italian architect (? Antonio Adami or Antonio Visentini), Padua, arch. SM 44/8/8. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo Ardon Bar-Hama
Reference number
SM 44/8/8
Purpose
Buildings in Padua, Rome and Vicenza
Aspect
[1] Wall plan and elevation of the Loggia Benavides, Padua
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
(pencil) Arco del mantaia / in Padova
Signed and dated
- 1759-64
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen and sepia wash, shaded, within double ruled border on laid paper (350 x 470)
Hand
Italian draughtsman
Notes
The drawing shows a single-opening arch with four engaged fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature with a frieze of triglyphs, garlanded bucrania and roundels; the end bays each have a pedimented blind niche. The Loggia was erected in the garden of the house of a wealthy lawyer, Marco Benavides, to the design of Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511-92) in the 1540s. Not shown on the drawings are the sculpted figures of Zeus and Apolllo in the niches and the bas-relief and inscription of the attic. The style of drawing is fairly similar to that of a wall plan and elevation of the Loggia from Visentini's workshop or studio at the RIBA (Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, J.McAndrew, Antonio Visentini, 1974, though there are differences in what is depicted, so that the RIBA drawings wrongly has a pediment, omits the bucrania and the string course and some of the mouldings are incorrect.
Level
Drawing
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