Architect: Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (2021) – Review
17.03.2022
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (2021) – Review17.03.2022
From the frescoes of Pompeii to the Great Hall of Siedlecin, from the Book of Kells to the Book of Hours, architecture has been depicted in full colour. Where colour has been largely absent in the history of architectural representation, however, is in the more technical drawings of architects themselves.… Read More
Ducros: Arch of Titus
01.05.2016
Ducros: Arch of Titus01.05.2016
This drawing by the Swiss artist Abraham-Louis-Alphonse Ducros — a preliminary sketch with a deep perspectival view of the Arch of Titus in Rome, and inspired by Panini’s Arch of Titus, 1745 — is the basis for one of his standard images, a definitive view of Rome sold to eighteenth-century… Read More