NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/20 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. It is a plan of the Temple of Saturn in the Forum Romanum, Rome, built from 501-498 BC. The drawing is a study for the plate in Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570), Libro IV, f.125.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/21 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. It depicts plans of the Mausoleum of Galla Placida, the sister of Honorius, Rome's last emperor. It also shows plans of other unidentified Roman tombs.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/22 recto in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. The Temple of Mars Ultor is in the Forum of Augustus, Rome. The temple was dedicated by Augustus in 2 BC, having vowed to build it after winning the Battle of Philippi forty years earlier.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/23 recto in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. This is a study for Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570), Libro IV, Cap. XII.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/23 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. It is a study for Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570), Libro IV, Cap. XII.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/24 recto in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. It is a study for Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570), Libro IV, Cap. XII.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/24 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. It is a study for Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570), Libro IV, Cap. XII.
NOTES: This drawing is numbered XI/25 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. The Temple of Venus and Rome was dedicated by Emperor Hadrian in 135 AD and finished by Antoninus Pius in 141 AD.