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Antonio Labacco (1495?-1567)
Temple of Castor and Pollux, Rome: capital and base of column c.1500-50
Pen and brown ink and light and dark brown washes over black chalk and ruled stylus lines | 34.1 x 24.40 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 910756
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Details of the Corinthian capital, column shaft and composite base of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, Rome. One of eighteen drawings in the dal Pozzo collection associated with Labacco's Libro appartenente all'architectura (see dal Pozzo A.IX pp.101-102). The left halves of the capital and top of the shaft are shown in outline in orthogonal elevation with some measurements; the right halves are fully drawn in perspectival projection, with the intertwined central volutes and the fleuron straying into the left half. The base and the bottom of the shaft are treated similarly: in orthogonal profile on the left with measurements, in perspectival projection on the right, with also a quarter-plan of the shaft with dimensions of the fluting.
Although the key letters are the same as on the corresponding plate in the Libro (1559, p. 21), the drawing is not identical to the engraving, which has the capital and base in full, with a separate profile of the base to the left and more details of the column included. The measurements are also different.
A. Noach observed that the engraving gives a less correct version of the capital (unpublished notes, compiled 1947–60). He also rightly remarked that the drawing is virtually identical one erroneously given to Jacopo Sansovino in Bartoli (Florence, Uffizi 1762A). Though they do not appear to be by the same hand, one is clearly copying the other or the same original. The key letter B appears on the base on both drawings and the inscriptions about the fluting are very close in their wording.
Annotations: measurements in braccia; key letters C and B; [lower centre right] Le Colonne hanno canali XXIIII/ et sono tutti uoti dal imo al sum-/mo scapo Questo sie il uiuo da pie; [to left] Conneto; [top, eighteenth-century hand, grey ink] Vigniola
Adapted from Ian Campbell,The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné. A.IX: Ancient Roman Topography, London 2004, cat.22Provenance
From the ‘Paper Museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and his brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689), dal Pozzo ‘type D’ mount. Sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI Albani, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani in 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762. Mounted in the Buildings and Architectural Ornaments album, fol. 17.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink and light and dark brown washes over black chalk and ruled stylus lines
Measurements
34.1 x 24.40 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 10756
