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Architectural Study: The Measured Profiles of the Cornice and Entablature of the "Colonnacce" from the Forum Transitorium (the "Palace of Nerva")

1500–20
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  • Title: Architectural Study: The Measured Profiles of the Cornice and Entablature of the "Colonnacce" from the Forum Transitorium (the "Palace of Nerva")
  • Artist: Sangallo family (Florence, active ca. 1510–20)
  • Date: 1500–20
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint, stylus ruling, and compass construction
  • Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 7 9/16 in. (28.3 x 19.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.605.2
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Port City of Alexandria (? Allusion to Dinocrates's Building of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Book 2, introduction, no. 1) (recto); Fragmentary Writing ("Libro Primo...") (verso)
Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family
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Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family
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