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Copy of Luigi Trezza's measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780
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Reference number
SM 45/2/2
Purpose
Copy of Luigi Trezza's measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780
Aspect
Part-plan and half-elevation of Il Palazzo del' Sig.re Conte Pietro Emili situato nel Villagio di Villimpenta, dieci miglia da Mantua / Giulio Romano Architecto
Scale
bar scale labelled Piedi Veronesi
Inscribed
as above, Il Palazzo del' Sig.re Conte Pietro Emilio. situato nel Villagio di Villimpenta, dieci miglia da Mantua / Giulio Romano Architecto and (key to plan) A. Capella / B. Alcove / C. Scale segrete / D. Galleria
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, hatching on laid paper (648 x 469)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
VF with 3 six-pointed stars above and Imperial with 3 crescents below
Notes
While the original drawing by Trezza was fully drawn out, Soane's copy is unfinished and shows the left-hand side of a seven-bay, two-storey house with attic and raised basement, and with a raised centre of three bays; only part of the plan was copied.
According to P.Davies and D.Hemsoll, 'The Villa Zani at Villimpenta' in Giulio Romano - architect, 1998, pp.254-6, the Villa was probably 'designed and built in the years immediately preceding 1583 ... a likely candidate [as architect] would be Bernardino Facciotto (active 1580-90)'. The patron would have been Antonio da Passano. Fig. 311 reproduces Luigi Trezza's elevation and plan drawn 1770-4 and housed in the Biblioteca Civica, Verona, MS 1010.
See general note regarding Sanmicheli and Luigi Trezza under Italy: Verona: Gran Guardia Vecchia.
According to P.Davies and D.Hemsoll, 'The Villa Zani at Villimpenta' in Giulio Romano - architect, 1998, pp.254-6, the Villa was probably 'designed and built in the years immediately preceding 1583 ... a likely candidate [as architect] would be Bernardino Facciotto (active 1580-90)'. The patron would have been Antonio da Passano. Fig. 311 reproduces Luigi Trezza's elevation and plan drawn 1770-4 and housed in the Biblioteca Civica, Verona, MS 1010.
See general note regarding Sanmicheli and Luigi Trezza under Italy: Verona: Gran Guardia Vecchia.
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.312-3
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.162-3
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.162-3
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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