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Capriccio of the ruined interior of a domed circular temple entered through a coffered vault with a pedimented doorway on the left, showing three-bay and single-bay niches, and a cornice on two projecting columns with the dome above.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/150
Purpose
Capriccio of the ruined interior of a domed circular temple entered through a coffered vault with a pedimented doorway on the left, showing three-bay and single-bay niches, and a cornice on two projecting columns with the dome above.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 150
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes270 x 392
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
six-pointed star
Notes
The scale of this circular building suggests a source in the Pantheon, of which Robert Adam made interior and exterior studies that are found in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 7 - 10). There is a similar capriccio by Adam in Adam vol.56/92. The character of the niches and free-standing columns may have been inspired by the interior of San Salvatore at Spoleto (see Clerk 143 and 168), which Adam visited in September 1755 (see J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.180).
Level
Drawing
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