UNSPECIFIED (2003) An engraved architectural drawing at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, 62 (4). pp. 436-447. ISSN 0037-9808

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Abstract

The use of tracings - drawings engraved on floors or walls showing an architectural detail to scale - was an important state of the Gothic building process. Although examples of such engravings have survived all over Europe, ver few Italian tracings are preserved. Two hitherto unknown examples, found in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, are presented here for the first time. One portrays the profile of a small base and was probably a trial drawing. The other is a two-light-and-oculus tracery pattern, and is particularly interesting because it is drawn to full scale and was cut into a reused slab of ancient marble. In this essay, I reconstruct the geometric process of generating the design and analyze the position of the tracing, with its peculiar Roman features, within the European Gothic context. I also consider the engraved drawing's possible function (guideline for template- and stone-cutters, or slab from which the tracery was to be cut directly), destination (sepulchral monument, window, or ciborium), and dating.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Journal or Publication Title:	JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Publisher:	SOC ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
ISSN:	0037-9808
Date:	December 2003
Volume:	62
Number:	4
Number of Pages:	12
Page Range:	pp. 436-447
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/8479

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