[1] Copy of a Luigi Trezza measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780

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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: Verona: Palazzo Canossa, ? 5-7 May 1780 (2)

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Reference number

SM 45/2/4

Purpose

[1] Copy of a Luigi Trezza measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780

Aspect

Longitudinal section/elevation

Scale

bar scales of Veronese feet

Inscribed

Spaccato del Palazzo, e Facciata del Cortile delli Nob.ⁱSig,^n'Marchesi di Canossa in Verona, P and W, Adige and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash, pencil on laid paper (471 x 645)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

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

Notes

The palace was designed by Sanmicheli on a three-sided plan with the open back guarded by the fast-running river Adige. The elevation shows a triple-arched entrance in the rusticated base with arched windows on the ashlar piano nobile divided by paired pilasters with, unusually, a mezzanine storey above and another below. Soane's unfinished copy omits much of the freehand detail including the balustrade and its array of statues. He noted that the attic storey was added (1761) to conceal the recently raised roof of the hall; some inscribed dimensions are not consistent with the scale. The Palazzo Canossa was under construction in 1533.

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, pp.307-8
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, p.162

Level

Drawing

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