Italian architectural drawings: Research brings new discoveries
Unknown artist, Unknown location (Rome?): project for the interior of a church, transversal (left) and longitudinal (right) elevation. Pen and brown ink, construction lines pre-scored with stylus, brown wash, compass, straightedge and freehand. Photo: Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM
.- A collection of Italian architectural drawings held by Nationalmuseum was the subject of a recently completed research project. Anna Bortolozzi, associate professor of art history at Stockholm University, made a detailed study of the collection, which was once owned by the architect Carl Johan Cronstedt. By studying the drawings as material objects, using information beyond the purely visual, she made several new attributions and concluded that the collection belonged to Carlo Maderno, the most prominent Roman architect of the early baroque period.
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Ever since the 17th century discovery of the Roman city of Pompeii, preserved under layers of volcanic deposits after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the excavated site located between Rome and Naples has been a magnet for fascinated visitors, no less so for its erotic frescoes.
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Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2021
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