The Roman Forum was a playground for Renaissance architects to learn their most important lessons in composition, design, and detail, forming the foundations of their widely known architectural treatises. Palladio, for example, built his works based on sketches of Forum monuments. While in Rome I will examine two structures in the Forum, the Temple of Faustina and the Temple of Saturn, whose detailed measure drawings Palladio captured in the four volumes of his I quattro libri dell’architettura (1570), which published drawings that are prescriptive and descriptive in nature. While at the Academy I will examine these works in light of new evidence found through my own actual measure drawings, created both digitally and by hand, to unravel the mysteries behind examining these temples in relation to the drawings of Palladio and the medieval fabric that was destroyed to create the view of the Forum we enjoy today.