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Reference number

SM 45/4/8

Purpose

[3] Copy of a design made in 1545 by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-73)

Aspect

Part-elevation showing left lower storey with entrances

Scale

to an Italian scale (a smaller scale than SM 45/4/6)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (549 x 379)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below

Notes

Clearly, Soane did not have time to copy the elaborate detail of Vignola's Gothic scheme and drew only parts of the elevation in outline with details of gabled pinnacles and crocketed gables, as well as indications of the treatment of the north and central portals.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.261-2
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.90-2

Level

Drawing

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

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