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Design for a triumphal arch in Mantua
Maker
born 1515
Formerly attributed to
Giovanni Battista Bertani (artist)
1516-1576
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Width: 25.4 cm
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Exhibition History
Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 30/01/1941-28/02/1941
Literature
pp. 21 n. 48, 97, 98
no. 58
Trupiano, Patrizia, 'Una nuova attribuzione per un disegno d'architettura del Courtauld Institute di Londra' in 'Il disegno di architettura', September 1990; 2
pp. 37-41
Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1941
cat. no. 25
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "Vorro rifar questo per coreggiere i dui nicchioni dove capisano le tre / figure per cio che e troppo gra[n] tratta da sostenere il lacunario / ancor che co[n] grossi ferri e un arco di sopra oculto si potria fare si / come in sa[n] pietro nostro qui di ma[n]tova so[n] fatti gli architravi / sopra le colon[n]e, se ben che a[n]cor che si possi far co[n] larte e provisioni / non lo co[m]porta vitruvio, se no[n] fosse o di metallo o ver ligname / e poi l'occhio vuol la sua parte, ivi e a[n]co da coreggiere no[n] so ch[e] altro"; centre, in faint brown ink, artist’s monogram and symbol, in a heart with a cross above: “PPAM”. Support (historic), Verso: upper centre edge, graphite, underlined: "?Bertano"; centre, graphite: "white"; lower left, graphite, unclear: "15. / u [?]".
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