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Reference number

SM volume 115/95h

Purpose

Drawing 8 (bottom left corner): Unidentified base

Aspect

Perspectival view of left half

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

Why this unremarkable Attic base was depicted in the sheet’s bottom corner is unclear. The rather archaic perspectival manner of representation is paralleled in certain depictions of bases found later in the codex (e.g. Fols 77r/Ashby 131 and 78r/Ashby 132).

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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