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The other drawings to be discussed here are 25 sheets, some dated 1568 and 1570, by the Anonymous Portuguese draughtsman. These are sufficiently similar in character to the Berlin codex that a possible connection is worth discussing. They are preserved in an album entitled »Architectura Civile« which was bound while still in the ownership of the dal Pozzo family. It contains 150 numbered folios in which are mounted a miscellany of drawings from the lated fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries of both ancient and modern subjects, mostly in and around Rome.

THE CODES DESTAILLEUR »D« AND THE ALBERTINA PARALLELS

The Codex Destailleur »D« is the name give to a collection of drawings, originally in three volumes, which belonged to the French architect, Hippolyte Destailleur (1822–1893). They were acquired from him in 1879 by the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and are now in the Kunstbibliothek in the same city. [EN 5: Ekhart Berckenhagen: Die französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin: Kritischer Katalog, Berlin 1970, p. 5] One volume contained all sixteenth-century subjects from St. Peter's, the Vatican Palace and the Palazzo Farnese and the Tomb of Julius II. A second consist predominantly of drawings of ancient temples and arches in Rome, Tivoli, Ancona and Arles, but also includes some contemporary projects such as the Villa Lante on the Janiculum. A third volume was exclusively of antique buildings, namely the Colosseum, the Theartre of Marcellus and the Baths of Caracalla, Diocletian and Trajan.

The subjects are treated exhaustively with measured plans and elevations, accompanied by a wealth of enlarged details and written comments. These are mostly in Italian with a strong French accent. One French (or at least Francophone) draughtsman seems to be responsible for 90% of the drawings. Bernd Kulawik, author of the first comprehensive catalogue of the codex, makes a strong case for identifying him with one »Guielmo francioso« (»French William«) who was paid for work as both a carpenter and a mason for the »Fabbrica« of St. Peter's between 1544 and 1547. [EN 6: Bernd Kulawik: Die Zeichnungen im Codex Destailleur D (HDZ 4151) der Kunstbibliothek Berlin … available online …] This is near enough the dating of the »third quarter of the sixteenth century« (1551–1575), which I assigned to the drawings of the antiquities from the Codex Destailleur »D« when entering them into the Census between 1986 and 1988. [EN 7: Kulawik (note 6), vol. I, p. 86. For the Census, Rec. No. 60460, I identified three main hands Anonymous Destailleur »D« 1 and 2, and Anonymous Destailleur »D«?, but this was working only with photographs and I warned that my attributions should be regarded as tentative.] Kulawik hesitates, however, from concluding definitively that the two are the same, and hence the traditional denomination of »Anonymous Destailleur« is maintained here. The remaining drawings or annotations are by a variety of hands. I noted two cases.