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Measured drawing made with Thomas Hardwick, June 1778
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Reference number
SM 45/2/26
Purpose
Measured drawing made with Thomas Hardwick, June 1778
Aspect
Plan
Scale
bar scale of 1/14 in to 1ft
Inscribed
dimensions given
Signed and dated
- datable to June 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil within double ruled border on laid paper (722 x 531)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
J Honig & Zoonen with fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with bell below, and JH
Notes
One of several collaborative efforts in measuring and drawing buildings made with Thomas Hardwick, whose related plan drawn to the same scale and dated 'June 1778' is in the RIBA Drawings Collection (SB60/11)
The great central hall (tepidarium) of the Baths of Diocletian was remodelled as the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli to a design by Michelangelo, 1563-6 with the foundation stone laid in 1561 and building work finished by about 1590. From 1749, the church was enlarged and the orientation altered by Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-73).
The great central hall (tepidarium) of the Baths of Diocletian was remodelled as the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli to a design by Michelangelo, 1563-6 with the foundation stone laid in 1561 and building work finished by about 1590. From 1749, the church was enlarged and the orientation altered by Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-73).
Literature
P.du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical partnership', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XV, 1972, pp.54,63
P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.913
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 114-5
P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.913
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 114-5
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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