Some Drawings of Early Christian Basilicas in Rome: St. Peter's and S. Maria Maggiore
Richard Krautheimer
The National Museum in Stockholm owns a most remarkable collection of architectural drawings, approximately twenty thousand number. bulk was gathered the eighteenth century on study trips to France and Italy by three Swedish architects: Nicodemus Tessin Younger, Carl Harleman, Count Johan Cronstedt.1 This group is supplemented two smaller collections, likewise custody named after former owners, d'Anckarvard Celsing. Together drawings fall into different categories: sketches projects Tessin, Cronstedt; original their famous contemporaries such as Le Notre, Brun, Audran; innumerable copies these architects outstanding days, among them maquettes Bernini's for Louvre,2 what seems Bernini project Spanish Stairs,3 Juvara; surveys exemplary buildings Italy. Intermingled wi...
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