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Italy: Rome: ? Church of S.S. Quattro Coronati. View in a landscape setting of a fortified building with round conical-capped tower and another irregular tower with smaller domestic buildings.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/81
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Church of S.S. Quattro Coronati. View in a landscape setting of a fortified building with round conical-capped tower and another irregular tower with smaller domestic buildings.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 81
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey, blue and brown washes127 x 185
Hand
Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)
Notes
This may be a view of the twelfth-century convent church of S.S.Quattro Coronati near the Lateran, seen from the gardens of the Villa Casali, Rome. The building was restored in 1914, but there is a nineteenth-century illustration of it in R. Krautheimer, Rome, Profile of a City, 312-1308, Princeton, 1980, pl.123. The building in this drawing can be compared with a similar castle or church in Adam vol.57/92. The size of the sheet, the nature of the paper and the style of drawing suggest that this and Adam vol.57/82 and 83 came originally from the same sketchbook.
Level
Drawing
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