Elevation and plan for the reconstruction of the Pelagia family mausoleum

People:

Pietro Bracci (architect)
Pietro Bracci (draughtsman)
M. Pius Rondinini (client)

Title:

Elevation and plan for the reconstruction of the Pelagia family mausoleum

Date:

after 1740

Description:

- This plan and elevation are for the reconstruction of the antique Roman mausoleum of the Pelagia family. The elevation is from the front looking over the courtyard wall. The right side is broken-out to show a section of the rooms.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink and grey wash, over graphite ?

Dimensions:

sheet: 53.8 x 39.9 cm

Reference number:

DR1966:0001:094

Drawing Type:

line drawing

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
section
broken-out section
elevation (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- There is an old fold across the c. The drawing is framed by a pen and brown ink border just inside the edge of the sheet.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, t.: "Altra Pianta ed Eleuazione [sic] dell'Edificio della Famiglia Pelagia ideata più precisa, conforme / accenna l'Inscrizzione nella Lapide antica, che esiste in Palazzo Rondinini, che lo descriue [sic] cosi. / Pelagiorum hoc Monumentum cum coherentijs Areola, et duabus ingamma Porticibus, / Superposito Cubiculo, Solario, Triclinio. Nequis a nomine nostro alienare audeat &[?] / Questo Edificio è ualutato in detta Lapide, inquantamila Sesterzij, cioe Mille duecento cinquanta Scudi Ro[mani]"; in various locations: with letters keyed to index; and b.: with a list and description of the rooms identified by letters A to R, excluding B, J, and K numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "94" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "102"

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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