An engraved architectural drawing at Santa Maria in Aracoeli,
Rome UNSPECIFIED (2003) An engraved architectural drawing at
Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, 62 (4). pp. 436-447. ISSN
0037-9808Full text not available from this repository. The use
of tracings - drawings engraved on floors or walls showing an
architectural detail to scale - was an important state of the
Gothic building process. Although examples of such engravings
have survived all over Europe, ver few Italian tracings are
preserved. Two hitherto unknown examples, found in the Roman
church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, are presented here for the
first time. One portrays the profile of a small base and was
probably a trial drawing. The other is a two-light-and-oculus
tracery pattern, and is particularly interesting because it is
drawn to full scale and was cut into a reused slab of ancient
marble. In this essay, I reconstruct the geometric process of
generating the design and analyze the position of