[4] Copy of a design made in 1578 by Andrea Palladio (1508-80)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane in Italy: measured drawings made or copied, 1778-80
    - Italy: Bologna: Church of San Petronio: copies of unexecuted designs for the west facade by Peruzzi, Vignola and Palladio and for completion by Rainaldi, copied 29 September 1779 (8)

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Reference number

SM 45/4/1

Purpose

[4] Copy of a design made in 1578 by Andrea Palladio (1508-80)

Aspect

Part-elevation

Scale

to an Italian scale

Inscribed

Dissegno in correctione et nuovo modo del Palladio, Altezza piedi 100 and (feint pencil) This door was / put as in the / other design & / rubb'd out away ('E' not inscribed)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen inscription on laid paper (545 x 380)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

In 1578 Palladio submitted three designs for the completion of the facade of San Petronio. Soane copied those designs which were marked by Palladio as 'E', 'F' and 'G' (this drawing, SM 45/4/2 and SM 45/4/3). The earliest design lettered 'D' and made in 1572 with Francesco Morandi, detto il Terribilia (1528-1603), was not copied by Soane. All are preserved in the Museo di S. Petronio in Bologna (n. 9,11,10,12).

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 260-1
H.Burns, L.Fairbairn and B.Boucher, Andrea Palladio 1508-1580, 1975, pp.241-44
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.164-66
L.Puppi, Andrea Palladio: the complete works, 1989, pp.245
M. Faietti and M.Medica (eds),'La Basilica incompiuta. Progetti antichi per la facciata di San Petronio a Bologna'. Catalogue of an exhibition, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, 2001, pp.77-8 pp. 115-121

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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