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Ashby, Thomas: Sixteenth-century drawings of roman buildings attributed to Andreas Coner
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Drawings Attributed to Andreas Coner.
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b. 'Palatii C(ardinalis) S(ancti) G(eorgii).'
The palace now known as Palazzo della Cancelleria. Its earlier
appellation comes from its builder Raffaele Riario, Bishop of Ostia, Cardi-
nale di S. Giorgio, who died in 1520. It has generally been attributed to
Bramante, but this has recently been questioned (supra, p. 16).
52. (q6v). 'arci domitiani imp.'
The so-called ' Arco di Portogallo,' a triumphal arch which spanned
the Via Flaminia (now the Corso) at the corner of the modern Via della
Vite, and was destroyed in 1662. (Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, 506.)
Our artist has not represented the reliefs with which it was adorned,
and which probably did not originally belong to it: for it bore no
inscription, and who erected it is not known. It seems, in fact, to have
been made up of various fragments, and to be, therefore, an erection of
late date (Lanciani, Zoc. cit. ; cf. Bull. com. 1896, 239) ; though Prof. Hulsen
(Nomenclator Topographicus, in Kiepert and Hulsen, Forma Urbis Romae
Antiquae) follows Prof. Helbig (Filhrer, i. p. 380) in attributing it to
Hadrian, while Fabriczy follows Nardini in attributing it to L. Verus and
M. Aurelius (op. cit. p. 37).
According to other representations it seems to have been higher in
proportion to its width than our artist makes it; Giuliano da Sangallo
Barb. 22v: Berlin, Kunstgevuerbemuseum A 376, 37: Cod. Windsor
'Ancient Roman Architecture' (lettered P.239—a. 2)—f. 2: Uffizi 443 (Salvestro
Peruzzi), Uffizi 2528—reproduced in Dosio, Urbis Romae Aedijiciorum
illustrium quae supersunt Reliquiae (1569), Pl. 28: Alo Giovannoli, 13k. iii.
Pl. 3 (1st edition). He is also wrong in showing the plinth on each side of
the archway, where it certainly did not run, an error which is shared by
Giuliano da Sangallo.
53. (47) 47v is blank.
The arch of Constantine.
The inscription (C.I.L. vi. 1139) is reproduced, with a few errors which
are due to carelessness ; the reliefs are not given.
54. (48)
Front elevation of the -arch of Septimius Severus. No attempt is
made to reproduce the reliefs: but the inscription (C.I.L.A. 1033) is given,
with a few unimportant errors due to careless copying.
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b. 'Palatii C(ardinalis) S(ancti) G(eorgii).'
The palace now known as Palazzo della Cancelleria. Its earlier
appellation comes from its builder Raffaele Riario, Bishop of Ostia, Cardi-
nale di S. Giorgio, who died in 1520. It has generally been attributed to
Bramante, but this has recently been questioned (supra, p. 16).
52. (q6v). 'arci domitiani imp.'
The so-called ' Arco di Portogallo,' a triumphal arch which spanned
the Via Flaminia (now the Corso) at the corner of the modern Via della
Vite, and was destroyed in 1662. (Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, 506.)
Our artist has not represented the reliefs with which it was adorned,
and which probably did not originally belong to it: for it bore no
inscription, and who erected it is not known. It seems, in fact, to have
been made up of various fragments, and to be, therefore, an erection of
late date (Lanciani, Zoc. cit. ; cf. Bull. com. 1896, 239) ; though Prof. Hulsen
(Nomenclator Topographicus, in Kiepert and Hulsen, Forma Urbis Romae
Antiquae) follows Prof. Helbig (Filhrer, i. p. 380) in attributing it to
Hadrian, while Fabriczy follows Nardini in attributing it to L. Verus and
M. Aurelius (op. cit. p. 37).
According to other representations it seems to have been higher in
proportion to its width than our artist makes it; Giuliano da Sangallo
Barb. 22v: Berlin, Kunstgevuerbemuseum A 376, 37: Cod. Windsor
'Ancient Roman Architecture' (lettered P.239—a. 2)—f. 2: Uffizi 443 (Salvestro
Peruzzi), Uffizi 2528—reproduced in Dosio, Urbis Romae Aedijiciorum
illustrium quae supersunt Reliquiae (1569), Pl. 28: Alo Giovannoli, 13k. iii.
Pl. 3 (1st edition). He is also wrong in showing the plinth on each side of
the archway, where it certainly did not run, an error which is shared by
Giuliano da Sangallo.
53. (47) 47v is blank.
The arch of Constantine.
The inscription (C.I.L. vi. 1139) is reproduced, with a few errors which
are due to carelessness ; the reliefs are not given.
54. (48)
Front elevation of the -arch of Septimius Severus. No attempt is
made to reproduce the reliefs: but the inscription (C.I.L.A. 1033) is given,
with a few unimportant errors due to careless copying.
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