Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
Lombard School, first half of the 16th Century
A Fanciful Tempietto
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
Lombard School, first half of the 16th Century
A Fanciful Tempietto
Pen and brown ink and brown, gray and black wash, over red chalk, the outlines indented;
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower right: Bramante and numbering, upper right: S3
737 by 409 mm; 29 by 16⅛ in.
With Armin B. Allen, Inc., New York and Hobhouse Limited, London, Exhibition of Ornamental Drawings 1520-1920, 1986, no. 1,
where acquired
This finely preserved, large sheet is a handsome survival of a 16th-century Italian architectural drawing, of a type only rarely seen on the market. The old attribution to Bramante reflects the inspiration, apparent in this drawing, of his design for the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, which dates to the first decade of the 16th century. Bramante's design and the resultant building in Rome received much critical acclaim, and directly or indirectly influenced many subsequent architectural works.
Though this design differs from Bramante's in several important ways, most notably in the exquisite dolphins that feature on the dome, finely drawn in confident pen and brown ink, the influence of Bramante can none the less be keenly felt throughout this accomplished sheet.
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