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[2] Finished measured drawing of the south-west corner of the 17-bay palazzo
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Reference number
SM 21/7/4
Purpose
[2] Finished measured drawing of the south-west corner of the 17-bay palazzo
Aspect
Elevation of five bays
Inscribed
La facciata del Palazzo Stoppani Roma
Signed and dated
- Novr 28th 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen, raw sienna, warm sepia and black washes, shaded, pencil within (added) quadruple ruled pen and wash (grey, black) border on laid paper (492 x 704)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below
Notes
The finished elevation shows the end five bays of a 17-bay, three-storey building with a rusticated ground floor, piano nobile with a coupled Tuscan order and pilastered attic. It is filed with other drawings of Italian Renaissance palaces prepared from 1806 (by office hands) for Soane's Royal Academy lectures. The drawing, dated 28 November 1779, was made in Rome by Soane and subsequently used as a demonstration drawing (lecture V, drawing 33). The border, colour washes and shading are added by an office hand.
The Vidoni Caffarelli palace, built in about 1515 and Raphaelesque in style, has been attributed to Lorenzo Lotti. The original facade was seven bays wide and two storeys high and has since been enlarged and now has 17 bays and an attic storey. As it happens, Soane did not measure and draw the early part of the palace but a mid-seventeenth century addition on the corner of the Via del Sudario and the Piazza Vidoni.
The Vidoni Caffarelli palace, built in about 1515 and Raphaelesque in style, has been attributed to Lorenzo Lotti. The original facade was seven bays wide and two storeys high and has since been enlarged and now has 17 bays and an attic storey. As it happens, Soane did not measure and draw the early part of the palace but a mid-seventeenth century addition on the corner of the Via del Sudario and the Piazza Vidoni.
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.270-1, 521-2 fn.12
D.Watkin, Sir John Soane: the Royal Academy lectures, Cambridge, 2000, pp.332, 560-1
D.Watkin, Sir John Soane: the Royal Academy lectures, Cambridge, 2000, pp.332, 560-1
Level
Drawing
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