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Italy: Rome, Santa Maria del Priorato. Record drawing of a design for the entrance screen or garden front of the church, showing a pedimented arch flanked by two blind bays with sculpture panels above and urns.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/178
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Santa Maria del Priorato. Record drawing of a design for the entrance screen or garden front of the church, showing a pedimented arch flanked by two blind bays with sculpture panels above and urns.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand the Waste Side -
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pen, grey washes
121 x 270, trimmed diagonally at four corners, three vertical foldlines
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist, possibly George Richardson
Notes
In 1764 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) began reconstruction of the 1568 church of Santa Maria del Priorato, Rome for the Knights of Malta; the building was completed in 1766. Like Adam vol.26/177, which has an inscription in the same hand and similar draughtsmanship, this drawing may be a copy of a finished drawing of c.1763, and the draughtsman may possibly be George Richardson (d. c.1813). The drawing has been folded three times, like Adam vol.26/177, which suggests postal transmission. The drawing shows the church as built, apart from the window panels, and can be compared with an early half-elevation in the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, Germany (see J. Scott, Piranesi, London, 1975, p.219).
There is a drawing of the façade of Santa Maria del Priorato in Adam vol.27/48.
There is a drawing of the façade of Santa Maria del Priorato in Adam vol.27/48.
Level
Drawing
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