Preliminary measured drawing

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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: Siena: Cathedral: Chigi Chapel and Church of San Agostino, 22 April 1780

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Reference number

SM 45/1/2

Purpose

Preliminary measured drawing

Aspect

Rough half-plan of the circular chapel, ceiling plan, wall elevation, half-section with reference to Bernini's statues of Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalene, S^tGesolima ^/Magdalena / behind the G^t Altar Lapis Lazuli / Ceiling ~~Lapis~~ Blue Gold Stars / [James] Gibbs seems to have studied here; part elevation of a panel framed by rich ornament
(verso) Rough section through room with a segmental ceiling and rough detail of Composite capital in the Church of San Agostino, Siena

Inscribed

as above and Try a flat ceiling with Square Compartments / La Sapienza Chiesa / [altarpiece painted by] Carlo Marata and some dimensions given
(verso, in another hand) Sig^re Soan and (Soane) Sienna / S^t Agostino / the Corinthian order by Vanvitelli

Signed and dated

Sienna Saturday April 22 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on secretary paper with three fold marks (220 x 310)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

three monti and eight-pointed star, and LB (Hayward 2610-16, Italian) The star and monti are the heraldic device of the Chigi so this may be a Siennese watermark (noted by Professor du Prey, January 2009)

Notes

These scribbled drawings made in situ on a well worn scrap of paper, were doubtless intended as the basis for a more finished drawing that was never made.

The Chigi Chapel (Capella della Madonna del Voto) was built to the design of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) for Pope Alexander VII Chigi, 1661-3. (H.Hibbard, Bernini, 1965, p. 191)

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.292-5 (a detailed description of drawing and building)

Level

Drawing

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