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Drawing 3 (below Drawing 2 at right): Unidentified moulding
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Reference number
SM volume 115/95c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (below Drawing 2 at right): Unidentified moulding
Aspect
Orthogonal view of a corner
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This moulding in its composition distantly resembles an entablature. Its ‘cornice’ consists of a cyma with foliate ornament, a band of egg-and-dart, followed lower down by bead and reel and a decorated cyma reversa, its ‘frieze’ is embellished with individualised flutes and it curves at the bottom to meet the ‘architrave’, and the ‘architrave’ has a cyma at the top, a band of dentils beneath that is followed by a tiny fascia. Drawn beneath a genuine impost, it may have been thought of likewise as an impost, albeit one of unconventional in design, especially with the dentils positioned as they are. It is possible that the caption ‘ad Tiburem’ located between this drawing and the one below it (see Cat. Drawing 5) could conceivably be associated with this drawing rather than the other. Alternatively, the drawing could, just possibly, be a copy of an early Renaissance design rather than a record of an antiquity.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 48
Census, ID 45648
Census, ID 45648
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
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