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VINCENZO LEONARDI (1590-C. 1648)

A Roman steelyard balance (statera)

c.1630-49

RCIN 911186

This sheet and no. 129 (below) formed part of the ‘paper museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo, a collection of thousands of drawings of antiquities, architecture and natural history. The drawing depicts, at actual size and in several views, a bronze statera or steelyard balance for weighing goods, with three alternative fulcra and corresponding scales, and a bust of Minerva as a counterweight.

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