784 pages in two volumes, hardback, 330 x 245 mm, over 1000 illustrations
PRICE: £45.00
ISBN: 9 781898 592 13 6
In the library of Sir John Soane's remarkable house at 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, several volumes of Italian architectural drawings of the 16th and 17th centuries have remained until today one of London's hidden treasures. They have never been catalogued before in detail.
Every drawing in this comprehensive catalogue raisonné is illustrated and accompanied by detailed descriptions of comparative material. Many of the volumes were acquired from the Robert Adam Sale in 1818, and the drawings reflect the taste of two of Britain's most distinguished architects, Adam and Soane, as well as demonstrating the study of Antique and Renaissance buildings and engineering theory that so preoccupied architects trained in the Academies of Art. The drawings are bound in the following albums: the North Italian Album, Francesco di Giorgio's treatise, Trajan's Column, Vasari Album and volumes of drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano.
This exhibition and catalogue celebrates the most gifted, inventive and eccentric amateurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries with a selection of drawings, engravings and portraits gathered from Soane's collection and other museums, archives and private houses around the country. More