To an approximate scale of 1:9

.Sub. colu[m]na. Troiana[m]. (‘Beneath Trajan’s Column’); [measurements]

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines

Bernardo della Volpaia

This drawing, which complements the one to its left, records the cornice at the top of the pedestal of Trajan’s Column, as the annotation makes clear – albeit in its corrupted Latin. It may depend on the same recording campaign as all the other drawings of the monument in the codex which are particularly numerous. In combining a section with an oblique view of the richly ornamented cornice, it differs from the orthogonal representation of the same detail in Giuliano da Sangallo’s earlier Codex Barberini, and it was presumably based on a different prototype. The same moulding is also depicted on a subsequent sheet (see Cat. Fol. 64r/Ashby 109). A simplified copy of the drawing was made by Michelangelo.

RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB 3Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 50; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 118–19)

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 18 (Hülsen 1910, p. 28; Borsi 1985, pp. 112–16)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 42r/Ashby 69; Fol. 53r/Ashby 91 Drawing 2; Fol. 64r/Ashby 109; Fol. 76r/Ashby 129

Ashby 1904, p. 47
Census, ID 45334

Drawing

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