This two-volume catalogue is the second Part of the catalogue
raisonne devoted to the large corpus of architectural and
topographical drawings from the Paper Museum. The first Part
(A.IX), published in 2004, was dedicated to drawings of ancient
Roman topography and architecture, while the present one covers
Renaissance and seventeenth-century architectural drawings.
Commissioned and collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and
his younger brother Carlo Antonio (1606-89), these drawings are
today divided between the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the
British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, and
numerous other institutions and private collections worldwide.
Bringing them here together emphasises the remarkable range and
quality of the collection as a whole and provides an opportunity to
bring to public attention drawings that are for the most part
unpublished and unidentified. As a collection of mostly earlier
material acquired rather than commissioned by Cassiano and Carlo
Antonio, the drawings provide a comprehensive coverage of
Renaissance architecture and architectural ornament, including
churches, palaces, villas and military fortifications, as well as
designs for architectural fitments and decorative schemes. Many of
the drawings are of particular scholarly interest as actual project
drawings from the hands, workshops or immediate circles of
distinguished sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architects,
including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger,
Pirro Ligorio, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Gianlorenzo Bernini.
As such they are connected with some of the most famous buildings
constructed or remodelled during this period, among them St Peter's
and St John Lateran in Rome and the princely palaces in Mantua,
Piacenza and Granada in Spain. A smaller group of drawings is
associated with architectural theory and includes a remarkable
series of facade schemes here attributed to Sebastiano Serlio. A
general introductory essay in Volume One explores the distinctive
character of the dal Pozzo collection of modern architectural
drawings and is followed by the catalogue entries grouped into
schemes for whole buildings, with plans and elevations (or both) of
ecclesiastical and secular works arranged according to their
location in Italy or, occasionally, France, Spain and elsewhere.
Volume Two is devoted principally to architectural fitments, such
as church furnishings, doorways and chimneys, as well as painted
decorations and carved ornaments. It then moves to military
subjects, cataloguing drawings of fortifications, sieges and
related subjects, followed by three drawings of topographical views
and two drawings, omitted in A.IX, of ancient decorative designs.
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