Temple of Minerva Medica

Plan of an edifice, commonly called the temple of Minerva Medica, at Rome

Andrea Palladio was one of Jones’s most important sources. This 1601 edition of Palladio’s Quattro libri di architettura shows Jones reconstructing the proportional design methods used in the domed temple of Minerva Medica in Rome, referred to by Palladio as ‘Le Galluce’. Jones was evidently attracted to the complexity and internal harmony of the plan, which is formed from concentric and interlocking circles. He used his dividers to seek out the principal ratios and then pricked the scored arcs with his pen, to create dotted outlines. 30: Worcester College, Oxford
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Tempio di Minerva Medica schizzato da Inigo Jones. <22>
<22> Immagine ne “I Quattro Libri” di Palladio, tratta da: A. A. Tait, “Inigo Jones’s ‘Stone-Heng’”, pag. 159, pubblicato su “The Burlington Magazine”, vol. 120, no. 900, 75th Anniversary Issue (marzo 1978), pag. 155-159 ad opera di The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd.