Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the fifteenth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 15 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Vine frieze with lions, hinds, bulls, erotes, various details activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 16

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk drawing of a vine frieze with erotes, lions, hinds and bulls and enlarged figure details, from the Domus Flavia on the Palatine
  • Incident light photograph of a vine frieze with erotes hunting animals from the Casa dei Crescenzi drawn in black chalk
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Album 1, Leaf 16

The narrow but long frieze band in the lowest drawing of the three extends in length well beyond the size of the album that contains it. Because of this, it was folded at both ends and pasted in as a fold-out. Its motif stems from the Casa dei Crescenzi, an 11th-century building located near the Tiber whose brick structure was decorated with ancient ornaments. Today, the building is home to the Centro di Studi per la Storia dell’Architettura, the Centre for the History of Architecture.

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