Italian Renaissance Drawings From the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum Volume I & II

by Fairbairn, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781898592136
• ISBN10: 1898592136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The important collection of Italian Renaissance drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum, London has for many years remained one of the hidden treasures of the Museum. Fully illustrated throughout, the subjects discussed in Lynda Fairbarn's two-volume catalogue include ornamental designs from the circle of Giorgio Vasari, Renaissance machinery, and the ancient brick tombs of the Roman Campagna as drawn by Giovanni Battista Montano.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Margaret Richardson
Introduction and Acknowledgements	9	(2)
Abbreviations	11	(1)
The North Italian Album. Designs for ornament by a Lombard artisan, c.1500	12	(40)
Francesco Di Giorgio. A copy of his treatise on architecture, c.1570	52	(124)
Meccanica. Drawings of machines, c.1560-1600	176	(42)
The Margaret Chinnery Album. A collection of Italian and Northern designs for ornament	218	(46)
Trajan's Column. A copy of the spiral frieze, c.1570	264	(52)
Frammenti. Cornices, capitals and entablatures after Alberto Alberti, c.1600	316	(44)
Catalogue of Watermarks	360	(6)
Bibliography	366	(414)
The Vasari Album. Drawings	390	(150)
Teofilo Torri
Orazio Porta
History of the projects in the Vasari Album	508	(6)
Analysis of the gatherings in the Vasari Album	514	(2)
Autograph drawings for architecture and ornament	516	(8)
Giorgio Vasari
Drawings	524	(16)
Orazio Porta
Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621). Three volumes.	540	(234)
The Five Orders of Architecture	556	(68)
Roman Monuments	624	(62)
Roman Tombs and Funerary Sculpture	686	(49)
The Roman Monuments and Sculpture. History and representations	735	(29)
Graphic sources for Montano's reconstructions of Roman Monuments	764	(4)
Antique sculpture in Rome in the Renaissance. Locations and representations	768	(2)
Drawings	770	(2)
Montano
Concordance between Montano's drawings and engraved copies	772	(2)
Other Italian Drawings in the Soane Collection	774	(6)
Index	780