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2 Side elevation of Villa and terrace garden titled LA VILLA MADAMA VICINO A ROMA
3 Section on axis of entry4 Longitudinal section through east loggia looking west titled LO SPACCATO DELLA LOGGIA NELLA VILLA MADAMA
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The Villa Madama, intended for entertainment rather then habitation, was sited on the lowest slopes of Monte Mario on the outskirts of Rome. Built for Cardinal Giulio de Medici, later Pope Clement VII, from 1518 on a plan devised by Raphael (1483-1520), the work was continued by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. The Loggia was decorated with stucco reliefs by Giovanni da Udine and paintings by Giulio Romano, 1520-5. Though never completed, the Villa Madama with its Loggia and garden was profoundly influential. Now used by the Italian government and rarely open to the public.Professor du Prey noted (January/February 2009) that he had checked out Soane's measurements and found them very accurate.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).