Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
Paris (?) circa 1511 – 1585/1586 Paris or Montargis

A suite of prints known as ‘Temples et Habitations fortifiées’ or as the ‘Petits Temples’

[Orléans circa 1547–1548]

quarto (165 × 122 mm), 50 unnumbered leaves present­ing a complete suite of fifty prints (combined etchings and engravings) by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (platemarks circa 58 × 90 mm).

collation the prints are imposed in pairs on sheets gathered [a]¹⁴ [b]¹² [c]¹² [d]¹² with key letters a–s (omitting j) engraved in the matrices to clarify their organisation: twelve projects (lettered a–c–d–e–f–g–h–i–k–o–r–s) are shown on three plates (plan, elevation, section), five projects (b–l–m–n–p) are shown on two plates (b–l: plan, section; m–n–p: plan, elevation) and one project (q) is shown on four plates (plan, elevation, plan, section).

paper watermark ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’ (30 × 14 mm) appearing in conjugate folios 2/13, 15/26, 16/25, 17/24, 28/37, 30/35, 31/34, 32/33, 39/50, 42/47, 43/46 (type Briquet nos. 1581–1636, but here with initials hc not observed by Briquet);¹ watermark ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars (57 × 32 mm) appearing in conjugate folios 27/38, 41/48, 44/45 (type Briquet nos. 13481, 13525, 13530, 13526, but here with indeci­pherable initials not recorded by Briquet).²

inscriptions all the prints have a caption written in black ink in a contemporary document cursive (two captions appear on the elevation of project a, where the front façade and portico are separately represented on the same plate; and two captions on the section of project h, where sections of both rotundas are shown).

provenance owner’s initials na with contemporaneous note in French comparing French and Dutch units of measure (late sixteenth or early seventeenth century) — Erica Spender (1909–1997), acquired circa 1975 — Bloomsbury Auctions, ‘Books from the Library of the late Erica Spender’, London, 18 October 2007, lot 313

Light waterstain in upper margins of six leaves (folios 5–10), parts of two bottom margins (folios 39, 50) and 15 mm of one fold (joining folios [d]1 and [d]12) expertly strengthened with Japanese paper, otherwise in fine original state of preservation.

binding contemporary flexible vellum, sewn on three cords; remains of two leather ties. Preserved in a quarter-morocco box (by the Brockman Bindery, Oxford).

An engraved architectural pattern book presenting eighteen different projects for temples, tombs, churches, and residences for the country and city, in a series of fifty plans, elevations, and sections. It is among the earliest pattern books featuring designs for domestic architecture to be printed anywhere in Europe and also one of the first publi­cations of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, a pioneer in the production of the architectural model book.

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Our copy, bound up as full sheets, intact in its original binding, is a unique witness for how the book appeared to its first readers – patrons, architects, and master masons – and valu­able evidence for establishing the chronology of its author’s undated publications, a project now gaining in interest. All other known copies (see appended Census) were rebound or dismembered long ago, when the margins were trimmed off the prints, and watermarks generally lost, together with proof of homogeneity.

Du Cerceau’s design sources

The majority of the designs (projects lettered a–l) represent so-called temples, all but the first based on a circular plan and crowned by a dome. The remainder (projects lettered m–s) show secular architecture of the palace-villa-temple type, most adapted from drawings by Sebastiano Serlio. This combination of temples, churches and dwellings in one model book was not unusual in the Renaissance: it occurs in Italian model books in manuscript form, and also in a few printed illustrated books, such as Serlio’s Il terzo libro (Venice 1540), in which the Pantheon, the church of St. Peter’s, and the villa of Poggio Reale in Naples are illustrated.

In the absence of evidence that Du Cerceau ever visited Italy, it may be assumed that all his knowledge of ancient and contemporary Italian architecture was gained at second-hand, from drawn model books, and printed architectural books. The Italian architecture engraved in the first half of Du Cerceau’s ‘Petits Temples’ is found in numerous model books and architectural sketchbooks. It appears that a limited number of prototypes was copied and recopied, in different locations, at different times, and for different purposes – sometimes for use within artistic workshops, sometimes as products for public circulation.³ Although many of these model books and sketchbooks have been closely studied, the relation­ship of the drawings to one another, and their transmis­sion, remains uncertain.⁴ The specific model books of antique Italian architecture used by Du Cerceau for this and for his similar publi­cations mostly await iden­tification.⁵ The designer’s tendency to freely revise over his models complicates their recognition; quite probably, his sources never will be known precisely.⁶

The source of the modern domestic architecture depicted in the ‘Petits Temples’ (projects n–s) can be recognized. In 1545, while living in ‘la grand rue Saint-Laurent’ in Orléans, Du Cerceau was appointed ‘Architecteur de la Royne de Navarre’. The Queen of Navarre, Marguerite d’Angoulême, the King’s sister, was also the patroness of Sebastiano Serlio, who since 1541 had been working in France as ‘premier peintre et architecte’. It is specu­lated that the two men knew each other and that Serlio allowed Du Cerceau to copy from a manuscript of his unpublished treatise On Domestic Architecture, the sixth part of Serlio’s programme of instruction for would-be architects, projected in seven books.⁷

Begun by Serlio before 1537, Book vi was three-quarters written by August 1545 and the exclusive references to François i (in the present tense), together with other evidence, sug­gest that it was completed before the death of François i at the château de Rambouillet on 31 March 1547.⁸ In 1547–1548, Serlio made a new copy, with Henri ii replacing the previ­ous references to François i, and some exemplars redrawn to reflect more of the French architectural tradi­tion. When he was dismissed as court architect (3 April 1548), Serlio took the revised copy with him to Lyon, where he sold it in either 1550 or 1553 (it soon passed into the possession of the Dukes of Bavaria).⁹ The earlier manuscript remained in France – perhaps in the possession of Du Cerceau himself¹⁰ – until the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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Fig. 3 Projects q and r (folios [d]6 verso – [d]7 recto; height of binding 168 mm)

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Fig. 4 Project s (folio [d]10 recto; height of binding 168 mm)

Athough Serlio presents in his Book vi dwellings for ‘all ranks of men’, the models of par­ticular interest to Du Cerceau are rural residences intended for governors, princes, and kings, mostly with large square courtyards and well-fortified, except for a single design for a pavilion. Du Cerceau’s use of this plan of a pavilion (project q) (see Fig. 3) shows that he is no slav­ish copyist: only the rusticated basement of the exterior elevation of Serlio’s design is retained; for the rest, Du Cerceau either depends on his imagination, or on a model found elsewhere.¹¹ Similarly, the plan of project s (see Fig. 4) is only loosely based on Serlio’s ‘House enclosed by double fortifica­tions, for the tyrant Prince’:¹² Du Cerceau eliminated the moat and fortified wall with triangular bastions that surround Serlio’s cas­tle, and changed the placement of the interior staircases. The elevation of the structure shown on the following print is completely different from Serlio’s design and has little relationship to the plan: instead of a high basement with triangular bastions, Du Cerceau shows a castle with rusti­cated base­ment, thick round towers surmounted by coni­cal roofs, and high dormer windows, elements apparently borrowed from two other projects of Serlio.¹³

Publication of the ‘Petits Temples’

On 28 June 1545, Du Cerceau was granted complete protection for a period of three years against unauthorised copying of his ‘ouvraiges et figures d’architectes, cornices, moresques, et compartiments’.¹⁴ He began to publish – at first anonymously, without titles, text, or indication of a place or date – suites of prints depicting details of the Orders, antiq­uities, arches, temples, churches, and palaces, both imaginary and real. The absence of identifying inscriptions indicates that these publications were intended as repertories of ideas and theoretical possibilities, not as works of antiquarian documentation; as patterns, not as designs to be built specifically as illustrated. In addition to suites of prints, Du Cerceau was producing albums of drawings on vellum and paper, of the same and similar designs, for his wealthier clients.¹⁵

In 1549, Du Cerceau began to provide his publications with title-prints where he identifies himself, usually declares to the reader that part of the designs are adapted from the works of others and part derive his own imagination, and names Orléans as the place of publication, with the date. Further such works, and also some individual prints (lettered Jacobus Androuetius du Cerceau fecit Aureliae, or variation thereof), appeared in 1550 and 1551. In the latter year, Du Cerceau is believed to have left Orléans for Paris, where his architectural publications take on a new appearance. Although still essentially ‘picture books’, descrip­tive legends are now engraved on the prints, and explanatory texts for each project, together with measurements, are often supplied.

The sequence of Du Cerceau’s untitled and undated Orléanais publications has yet to be established. Efforts to place the suites of prints in chronological order are hampered by the paucity of physical evidence – a lack of homogenous sets to study – and at present only general conclusions can be drawn. It appears that an initial interest in the decorative details of antique monuments and the Orders, evinced in the ‘Petits Temples’, other undated suites such as the ‘Détails d’ordres d’architecture, petit format’ (derived from prints by Agostino Veneziano published at Rome in 1536), then in dated suites depicting arches and temples published 1549–1551, gave way to concentration on French architecture of the recent past and present. The ‘Petites Habitations’, a suite of fifteen plans and elevations of rural resi­dential architecture, covered by inscriptions indicating the purpose of each room, is likely to mark the transition.¹⁶

Once established in Paris, Du Cerceau focused on house-building (three extensive books were published there in 1559, 1561, 1582) and the documentation of royal and noble houses of France (1576, 1579). He still published works depicting ancient monuments, but these were simple copies churned out in his atelier: a book on ruins (1561) after prints by Hieronymus Cock which had been published in Antwerp in 1550; and a book of recon­structed buildings (1584) after prints by Pirro Ligorio published some thirty years earlier.

The success Du Cerceau enjoyed in Paris encouraged him to exploit further several of his earlier publications. The suite entitled ‘xxx exempla arcuum’ (Orléans 1549) was re-engraved in 1560; the ‘Petites grotesques’ (1550) was copied (in reverse) in 1562, with eleven new prints added; and the ‘Fragments antiques’ (1550) was re-engraved in 1565.

The designs of the ‘Petits Temples’ were also reprocessed, copied in a larger format (platemarks circa 200 × 230 mm), at an uncertain date – quite possibly after the death of Du Cerceau in 1586. All fifty prints were copied, albeit inexactly, with a change in organi­sation and lettering (a–s on the ‘Petits Temples’ altered to a–r on the ‘Grands Temples’),¹⁷ and two of the ‘Grands Temples’ were copied in reverse (combined elevation and section of ‘Petits Temples’ project l; plan of project n).¹⁸ Two early critics, Destailleur and Guilmard, assumed the ‘Grands Temples’ took precedence over the ‘Petits Temples’;¹⁹ however, it was quickly realised that the ‘Petits Temples’ appeared first. Writing in 1887, Henry de Geymüller described the ‘Grands Temples’ thus: ‘une copie agrandie sortie de l’officine de Du Cerceau; l’exécution, très négligée et avec des hachures écartées pour faire le moins de travail possible, rap­pelle celle des bois de l’ouvrage de Serlio (tem­ples)’.²⁰ Forty years on, Linzeler formed the same opinion,²¹ and later writers have concurred.²²

Gathering these few threads together – Du Cerceau’s dependence on the work of Italian antiquarians, his probable exposure to Serlio’s Book vi in 1545–1547, and the issue of the ‘Temples et Habitations fortifiées’ without a title-print (a feature customary from 1549) – a publication date for the ‘Petits Temples’ of 1547 or 1548 is likely. It may be the work was triggered by the publication of Serlio’s Book v (On temples) in Paris in 1547; it certainly was published before 1551.²³

Manuscript captions

All the prints in our copy have brief captions added in the margins in pen and black ink by the same con­temporary hand. The plans, which always precede the elevation and section, are captioned (with varia­tions) ‘Le plan du temple suyvant’ (‘…du batiment suyvant’, or ‘…du forteresse suyvant’);²⁴ the eleva­tions are captioned (with variations) ‘L’ordonnance du dehors [print 2: devant] du temple’ (‘…dehors du batiment’, or ‘…de la forteresse’);²⁵ and the sections are captioned (with variations) ‘L’ordonnance du dedans du temple’ (‘…du batiment’, or ‘…du forteresse’).²⁶ Two prints which are combined elevations and sections are captioned ‘L’ordonnance du dehors & dedans du Temple’ (prints 5, 31) and another two elevations are captioned simply ‘L’ordonnance du batiment’ (prints 33, 40).

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In this respect our copy is by no means unusual: it seems that one of the activities in Du Cerceau’s atelier was to add such captions to prints of the ‘Petits Temples’, ‘Grands Tem­ples’, ‘Moyens Temples’, and other suites. It was once speculated that these inscriptions were added by Du Cerceau himself, but there is far too much variation for them to be by a single hand.²⁷

Provisional census

Located Copies

● New York, Columbia University, Avery Library, AA 530 An237. Incomplete (48 prints)²⁸

● Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (ENSBA), Réserve LES 0284. Com­plete (50 prints)²⁹

● Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (ENSBA), Masson 2926. Complete (50 prints)³⁰

● Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (ENSBA), Masson 2927–4. Complete (50 prints)³¹

● Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), 4º Rés. 77 (2). Complete (50 prints)³²

● Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Petit fol-ed-2 (C, 1). Complete (50 prints)³³

● Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Fisher Fine Arts Library, 729 An26. Incom­plete (49 prints)³⁴

Unlocated / Lost Copies

● Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Ornamentstichsammlung, OS 2350. Complete (50 prints)³⁵

● Destailleur, Hippolyte (1822–1893). Complete (50 prints)³⁶

● Leclère, Achille René François (1785–1853). Complete (50 prints)³⁷

● Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. (1778–1864). Incomplete³⁸

● Vivenel, Antoine (1799–1862). Complete (50 prints)³⁹

When interest in collecting Du Cerceau’s prints awakened in the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for collectors to create the ‘best’ copy through amalgamation of impressions from multiple copies.

Chief among such collectors was the architect Antoine Callet (1755–1850?), who assem­bled an enormous collection of Du Cerceau’s drawings and prints, which he installed in fifteen folio volumes bound in violet morocco, and kept in a house in Paris built after a plate in Du Cerceau’s Livre d’architecture. Callet’s set of the ‘Temples et Habitations forti­fiées’, now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, probably was adulterated before it arrived there: ‘La première gravure de la série r est une copie exécutée à une époque postérieure’;⁴⁰ subsequently, a superfluous print (a duplicate impression in project s) was introduced. The integrity of Callet’s second copy, later in the collection of André Bérard, and now in the University of Pennsylvania, is also compromised: all the prints are trimmed on (or within) the platemark and mounted in an album; the last print is missing.

The copies of Joseph Michel Anne Le Soufaché (1804–1887), now in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, and of Edmond Foulc (d. 1916), now in the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, have been similarly treated. The copy here offered for sale thus appears to be the only homogenous set of the prints to survive.

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brugerolles
The Renaissance in France: drawings from the Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris, catalogue of an exhibition by Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet (Cambridge, ma & Seattle 1995)

campbell
Ian Campbell, The paper museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo: a catalogue raisonné: Drawings and prints in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Museum, the Institut de France and other collec­tions. Series A: Antiquities and architecture. Part 9: Ancient Roman topography and architecture (London 2004)

destailleur 1863
Hippolyte Destailleur, Notices sur quelques artistes français: architectes, dessinateurs, graveurs du xvie au xviiie siècle (Paris 1863)

destailleur 1895
Hôtel Drouot, ‘Livres et estampes relatifs aux beaux-arts (architecture, peinture, gravure, ornementa­tion, etc.) provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur’, Paris, 21 May 1895

deswarte-rosa
Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa, ‘Serlio et Jacques i^er Androuet du Cerceau dans le Recueil de Dessins de Camille de Neuville à Lyon’ in Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon: architecture et imprimerie. 1. Le traité d’architecture de Sebastiano Serlio: une grande entreprise éditoriale au xvie siècle (Lyon 2004)

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Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance drawings from the collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum (London 1998)

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Henry de Geymüller, Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris 1887)

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Désiré Guilmard, Les maîtres ornemanistes, dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs (Paris 1880–1881)

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Sebastiano Serlio, Sebastiano Serlio on architecture. Volume Two: Books vi and vii of ‘Tutte l’opere d’architettura et prospetiva’, translated and edited by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven 2001)

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Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français: Graveurs du seizième siècle, compiled by André Linzeler (Paris 1932)

rosenfeld 1978
Sebastiano Serlio, On domestic architecture: different dwellings from the nearest hovel to the most ornate palace: the sixteenth-century manuscript of book vi in the Avery Library of Columbia Univer­sity, foreword by Adolf K. Placzek; introduction by James S. Ackerman; text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld (New York & London 1978)

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Myra N. Rosenfeld, ‘From drawn to printed model book: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau and the Transmission of Ideas from Designer to Patron, Master Mason and Architect in the Renaissance’ in racar: Revue d’art Canadienne 16 (1989), pp.131–145, 219–250

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Gustina Scaglia, ‘Drawings of “Roma Antica” in a Vitruvius edition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Part iii. Index of architectural drawings, sketchbooks, copybooks and albums by Renaissance artists and humanists’ in Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 30 (1995), pp.249–305

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List of prints

Project A

■ Print [1] (folio 1 verso)
Plan of a mausoleum on a Greek-cross plan, the large chamber with five domes, preceded by a nave with tricorn chapel on each side and entered through a concave exedra with hexastyle portico
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre A
Imposed with print [14]
Manuscript caption: Le Plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawings: London, SJSM, vol.124, folio 33 recto (Fairbairn no. 1084); Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project A

■ Print [2] (folio 2 verso)
Elevations of the above (two on the same matrice, above front façade and below portico)
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre A
Imposed with print [13]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript captions: top L’ordonnance du | devant du | temple; bottom Le porti[cl]e | du devant | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project A

■ Print [3] (folio 3 verso)
Section
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom right A
Imposed with print [12]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project A

Project B

■ Print [4] (folio 4 verso)
Plan of a circular room with seven radiating niches inscribed within a square block, access to the upper floor by two corner spiral stairs entered from the exterior on either side of the entrance
Platemark 57 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre B
Imposed with print [11]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawings: London, SJSM, vol.124, folio 7 recto (Fairbairn no. 1040, as one of a group of tombs on Via Latina); Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65); Montréal, CCA, DR1982:0020, folio 28 recto (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 149, as ground plan of Bramante’s project for the rebuilding of SS Celso e Giuliano in Rome)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project B (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 148)

■ Print [5] (folio 5 verso)
Perspectival half-section and elevation of the above, the façade articulated by eight pilasters standing on a low basement, square windows below the drum of the dome lighting the chamber
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre B
Imposed with print [10]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors & dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project B

Project C

■ Print [6] (folio 6 verso)
Plan of a circular building with seven semicircular alcoves inside, entered by a vestibule with two niches on the cross axis, two spiral stairs in the piers lead to the upper cham­ber; six external niches
Platemark 58 × 89 mm, lettered bottom centre C
Imposed with print [9]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du [batiment, struck through] temple | suyvant
Related drawings: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 recto (Seidel Abb. 64); Chatsworth, Devonshire Collection, Album 36, folio 10 (detail Campbell, III, Comp. fig. 351i); Montréal, CCA, DR1982:0020, folio 49 recto (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 141, as the tomb of Romulus on the Via Appia in Rome); Location unknown (Campbell, III, no. 356)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project I (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 140)

■ Print [7] (folio 7 verso)
Perspectival elevation of the above
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom right C
Imposed with print [8]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project I

■ Print [8] (folio 8 recto)
Section of the above
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre C
Imposed with print [7]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project I (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 142)

Project D

■ Print [9] (folio 9 recto)
Plan of a cross-shaped building
Platemark 57 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre D
Imposed with print [6]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawing: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project C

■ Print [10] (folio 10 recto)
Perspectival elevation of the above, the shallow portico with eight columns, a rectangular window on each side
Platemark 57 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre D
Imposed with print [5]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project C

■ Print [11] (folio 11 recto)
Section of the above
Platemark 59 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre D
Imposed with print [4]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project C

Project E

■ Print [12] (folio 12 recto)
Plan of the Serapeum of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli
Platemark 90 × 60 mm, lettered bottom left E
Imposed with print [3]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawings: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65); Montréal, CCA, DR1982:020, folio 24 recto (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 144)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project D (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 143). Two flights of stairs leading to the upper storey are now shown on the portico.

■ Print [13] (folio 13 recto)
Elevation
Platemark 90 × 60 mm, lettered bottom centre E
Imposed with print [2]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project D (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 145)

■ Print [14] (folio 14 recto)
Section
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre E
Imposed with print [1]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project D

Project F

■ Print [15] (folio 15 verso)
Plan of a building in the form of a cross, a central rotunda with four semicircular niches, projecting crossing arms with niched vestibules leading to domed rooms and the exterior
Platemark 90 × 56 mm, lettered bottom centre F
Imposed with print [26]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawing: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, Ms 6246 (Recueil de Dessins d’Architecture de Camille de Neuville), no. 10 (Deswarte-Rosa p.457, fig. 194)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project E (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 150, as a project of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger for St. Peter’s in Rome); Deswarte-Rosa p.457, fig. 195

■ Print [16] (folio 16 verso)
Perspectival elevation of the front façade with hexastyle portico
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre F
Imposed with print [25]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors du | temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project E

■ Print [17] (folio 17 verso)
Section of the above
Platemark 59 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre F
Imposed with print [24]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project E

Project G

■ Print [18] (folio 18 verso)
Plan of a building with four domes, a large circular chamber at the core, from which four corridors open, one to a double-apsed entrance narthex and three to octagonal chambers; spiral stairs entered from the exterior occupy the four quadrants of the circle
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre G
Imposed with print [23]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple suyvant
Related drawings: London, SJSM, vol.124, folio 89 recto (Fairbairn no. 1177, as an unidentified buil­ding near Palestrina); Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 recto (Seidel Abb. 64); Windsor, RL, 10363 verso (Campbell, III, no. 355; compare no. 162, both unidentified buildings at or near Palestrina)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project F

■ Print [19] (folio 19 verso)
Perspectival elevation of the above
Platemark 59 × 91 mm, lettered bottom left G
Imposed with print [22]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project F

■ Print [20] (folio 20 verso)
Section of the above
Platemark 58 × 59 mm, lettered bottom left G
Imposed with print [21]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project F

Project H

■ Print [21] (folio 21 recto)
Plan of circular chamber with semicircular niches inscribed in an octagon entered through a deep por­tico of eight columns; a smaller chamber lies at the far end of the axis; twelve exterior niches
Platemark 90 × 57 mm, lettered lower right H
Imposed with print [20]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple suyvant
Related drawings: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65); Montréal, CCA, DR1982:0020:027 (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 147, as the so-called Mausoleum of Antinous outside Porta Maggiore in Rome)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project G (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 146)

■ Print [22] (folio 22 recto)
Perspectival elevation of front façade with four-column portico
Platemark 60 × 90 mm, lettered lower left H
Imposed with print [19]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project G

■ Print [23] (folio 23 recto)
Sections of the two rotundas (on the same matrice)
Platemark 90 × 57 mm, lettered bottom centre H
Imposed with print [18]
Manuscript captions: top Po[ur] dedans de la | chappelle de | derriere; bottom Po[ur] le | dedans du | temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project G

Project I

■ Print [24] (folio 24 recto)
Plan of a rotunda-like hall entered through a deep columnar porch and two vestibules
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered left I
Imposed with print [17]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawings: London, SJSM, vol.124, folio 69 recto (Fairbairn no. 1148, as unidentified early Christian build­ing); Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65); Loca­tion unknown (Campbell, II, no. 154)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project H

■ Print [25] (folio 25 recto)
Perspectival elevation of the front façade
Platemark 59 × 90 mm, lettered lower right I
Imposed with print [16]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project H

■ Print [26] (folio 26 recto)
Perspectival half-section and elevation of the rotunda
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre I
Imposed with print [15]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project H

Project K

■ Print [27] (folio 27 verso)
Plan of a square tomb with three projecting circular rooms
Platemark 58 × 89 mm, lettered lower right K
Imposed with print [38]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple suyvant
Related drawings: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 verso (Seidel Abb. 65)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project 2 I

■ Print [28] (folio 28 verso)
Elevation of the front façade
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom right K
Imposed with print [37]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project 2 I

■ Print [29] (folio 29 verso)
Section
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre K
Imposed with print [36]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project 2 I

Project L

■ Print [30] (folio 30 verso)
Plan of a circular building
Platemark 90 × 59 mm, lettered bottom centre L
Imposed with print [35]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du temple | suyvant
Related drawings: Florence, Uffizi, GDS, Disegni di Architettura 689 recto (Seidel Abb. 64); Montréal, CCA, DR 1982:0020, folio 18 recto (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 138, as a Roman villa near Palestrina); Windsor, RL, 10361 verso (Campbell, III, no. 352, as a circular building near Palestrina)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project K (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 137)

■ Print [31] (folio 31 verso)
Perpectival half-elevation and section of the above
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom left L
Imposed with print [34]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans et dehors | du temple
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project K (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 139). The copy is engraved in reverse.

Project M

■ Print 32 (folio 32 verso)
Plan of the Temple of Minerva (after the reconstruction of Francesco di Giorgio)
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre M
Imposed with print [33]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du batiment
Related drawings: Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Codice Saluzziano 148, folio 77 (Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Trattati, edited by Corrado Maltese, Milan 1967, I, tav.141)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project L (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 152)

■ Print [33] (folio 33 recto)
Combined frontal and side elevation of the above
Platemark 59 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre M
Imposed with print [32]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du batiment
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project L (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 153)

Project N

■ Print [34] (folio 34 recto)
Plan of a house for a noble gentleman (after Serlio)
Platemark 90 × 57 mm, lettered bottom right N
Imposed with print [31]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du batiment | suyvant
Related drawings: Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project P15 (Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xiv), without the front courtyard as in Du Cerceau’s print; Serlio, Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 13 recto (Hart & Hicks, II, p.27)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project M. The copy is engraved in reverse

■ Print [35] (folio 35 recto)
Elevation of a large dwelling for a prince (after Serlio)
Platemark 58 × 90, lettered bottom left N
Imposed with print [30]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du devant du batiment
Related drawings: compare Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project X21 (Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxvii); Serlio, Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 25 recto fig. A (‘the House of the exceedingly illustrious Prince to be built in the Countryside’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.53)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project M

Project O

■ Print [36] (folio 36 recto)
Plan of a house of a noble gentleman within a city (after Serlio)
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre O
Imposed with print [29]
Manuscript caption: Le plan du batiment | suyvant
Related drawings: compare Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project P (‘house for a noble Venetian gen­tleman’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.liv); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 54 recto (Hart & Hicks, II, p.111); Serlio, Book VII, p.59 (Hart & Hicks, II, p.227)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project N

■ Print [37] (folio 37 recto)
Section of a house on three levels with a loggia (after Serlio)
Platemark 57 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre O
Imposed with print [28]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du batiment | du dedans
Related drawings: compare Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project M12 (‘villa for a noble gentleman’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.viii); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 10 recto (Hart & Hicks, II, p.21)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project N

■ Print [38] (folio 38 recto)
Elevation of a noble gentleman’s house within the city (after Serlio)
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre O
Imposed with [27]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors | du batiment
Related drawings: compare Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project Q (‘house for a noble gentleman’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.lix); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 57 recto (Hart & Hicks, II, p.117)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project N

Project P

■ Print [39] (folio 39 verso)
Plan of a fortified house built in the form of cross with porticos at three ends
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre P
Imposed with print [50]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du batiment | suyvant
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project O. Extra columns and exterior niches are added by the copyist.

■ Print [40] (folio 40 verso)
Elevation:
Platemark 58 × 89 mm, lettered bottom left P
Imposed with print [49]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du batiment
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project O

Project Q

■ Print [41] (folio 41 verso)
Plan of a domed pavilion upon a rusticated block (after Serlio’s project for the Grotte des Pins at Fontainebleau)
Platemark 91 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre Q
Imposed with print [48]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: Le plan du batiment | suyvant
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project P

■ Print [42] (folio 42 verso)
Combined front and side elevation
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre Q
Imposed with print [47]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dehors du batiment
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project P (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 157)

■ Print [43] (folio 43 verso)
Ground plan, lower floor (after Serlio’s project for the Grotte des Pins at Fontainebleau)
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre Q
Imposed with print [46]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: Le plan du dedans | du batyment
Related drawings: Serlio Book VI (Avery Ms), project Y25 (Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxxii; Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 156, as for the Grotte des Pins at Fontainebleau); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 32 recto (‘the small Royal House outside Cities’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.67)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project P (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 155)

■ Print [44] (folio 44 verso)
Combined elevation and section (after Serlio’s project for the Grotte des Pins at Fontainebleau)
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom centre Q
Imposed with print [45]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | du batiment
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project P

Project R

■ Print [45] (folio 45 recto)
Plan of a fortified house with circular loggia (after Serlio)
Platemark 90 × 58 mm, lettered bottom left R
Imposed with print [44]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: Le plan de la forteresse | suyvant
Related drawings: Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project 22** (‘dwelling for a prince’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxviii); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 27 recto (‘the House in the Countryside of the exceedin­gly illustrious Prince’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.57)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project Q. A corridor communicating the rooms to right and left of the entrance has been introduced by the copyist.

■ Print [46] (folio 46 recto)
Elevation of a fortified house (after Serlio)
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom left R
Imposed with print [43]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance de l[a] [… ?…] des | [… ?…] de la forteresse
Related drawings: Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project 22** (‘dwelling for a prince’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxix); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 27 recto (‘the House in the Countryside of the exceed­ingly illustrious Prince’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.57)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project Q

■ Print [47] (folio 47 recto)
Elevation of the above, showing the loggia surrounding the courtyard (after Serlio)
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre R
Imposed with print [42]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans | sur la court ronde
Related drawings: Serlio, Book VI (Avery Ms), project 22** (‘dwelling for a prince’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxix); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 26 recto fig. A (‘the House of the exceedingly illustrious Prince to be built in the Countryside’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.55)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project Q

Project S

■ Print [48] (folio 48 recto)
Plan of a fortified house with square loggia (after Serlio’s project for a Castle for a Tyrant Prince)
Platemark 90 × 57 mm, lettered bottom centre S
Imposed with print [41]; watermark in sheet ‘Roue de Ste-Catherine’ accompanied by three stars
Manuscript caption: Le plan de la forteresse | suyvant
Related drawings: Serlio Book VI (Avery Ms), project Et23 (‘fortress for a Tyrant prince’, Rosenfeld 1978, pl.xxx; Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 160); Serlio Book VI (Munich Ms), folio 28 recto (‘the House of the Tyrant Prince to be built outside in the Countryside’, Hart & Hicks, II, p.59)
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project R (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 159).

■ Print [49] (folio 49 recto)
Elevation of a fortified house with casemates
Platemark 60 × 90 mm, lettered bottom left S
Imposed with print [40]
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance de l[a] [… ?…] des [… ?…] | de la forteresse [… ?…] le dehors
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project R (Rosenfeld 1989 fig. 161)

■ Print [50] (folio 50 recto)
Section of a fortified house showing underground rooms and how they get their light
Platemark 58 × 90 mm, lettered bottom centre S
Imposed with print [39]; watermark in sheet ‘Fleur de lis sommée d’un lambel’
Manuscript caption: L’ordonnance du dedans de la forteresse | sur la court carree
Related drawings:
Engraved copy: ‘Grands Temples’ project R