[1] Copy of a design made in 1522-3 by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536)

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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 45/4/7

Purpose

[1] Copy of a design made in 1522-3 by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536)

Aspect

Part-elevation of the proposed facade in a Gothic style, plan of pilaster labelled Forma de li pilastri / d'mezzo, and part-plan labelled la tribuna, La nave and Le Capelle cinquantre

Scale

to Italian scales (with rough bar scale)

Inscribed

di Baldassar da Siena Al^tp. 100 / Above it the plan, Pianta antica and some dimensions of the plan given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (548 x 378)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Soane chose the less exuberant of the three Gothic schemes (Museo di S.Petronio, Bologna: n. 3b (copied by Soane), n. 17 recto and verso, and a sectional design with a dome, n. 50 ) sent in by Peruzzi, copying most of the left side of the elevation in outline and adding some of the decorative detail of the portals, an elaborate ogee-arched window and crocketed gable and pinnacles. There is a further alternative elevation in the British Museum (Department of Prints and Drawings, 1898-3-28-1).

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p. 261
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

Level

Drawing

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