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  • image Adam vol.57/132

Reference number

Adam vol.57/132

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? Santa Sabina. View from a two-bay bridge showing a large irregular domed church, possibly the Early Christian Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine, with pedimented doorway within a shaped gable façade with a statue on a square base. Beyond is an archway, another church, tower and campanile.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 132

Signed and dated

  • Undated.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, grey wash183 x 214

Hand

Unidentified eighteenth-century artist

Notes

The view may depict the Early Christian Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine, near Santa Maria del Priorato. The composition is not topographically correct when compared with a similar view of 1766 by Charles Natoire (see E. Bowron & J. Rishel (eds.), Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia and London, 2000, p.536). The ruins shown in the background are the same as those shown as 'Antiche ruine' in Gianbattista Nolli Nuova Piante di Roma, 1748. The hand in this drawing is similar to that of Adam vol.57/124.

Level

Drawing

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