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Drawing 2 (right): Entablature from the Cortile del Belvedere’s top terrace
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Reference number
SM volume 115/93b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (right): Entablature from the Cortile del Belvedere’s top terrace
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:8
Inscribed
Pulcri. uidere. desupra. (‘Of the Belvedere, top level’)
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown and brown wash over stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The entablature drawn here belongs, as the caption infers, to the Corinthian order of the upper terrace of Bramante’s Cortile del Belvedere, which was initially of just one storey in height (see Cat. Fol. 27v/Ashby 44). Its plainness and the lack of modillions in its cornice are both unusual for a Corinthian order, even if standard in late fifteenth-century buildings in Rome, and this makes the cornice little different from the Ionic example from the Theatre of Marcellus drawn next to it. It is also unusual, as the drawing accurately illustrates, in having projections alternating with recessions beneath a corona and other mouldings at the top that run on continuously.
The drawing was added after the one of the adjacent entablature was completed (see Cat. Drawing 1).
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 15r/Ashby 25; Fol. 27r/Ashby 43; Fol. 27v/Ashby 44; Fol. 28r/Ashby 45; Fol. 28v/Ashby 46; Fol. 46v/Ashby 78; Fol. 53v/Ashby 92; Fol. 68r/Ashby 116; Fol. 69r/Ashby 117; Fol. 72r/Ashby 122
The drawing was added after the one of the adjacent entablature was completed (see Cat. Drawing 1).
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 15r/Ashby 25; Fol. 27r/Ashby 43; Fol. 27v/Ashby 44; Fol. 28r/Ashby 45; Fol. 28v/Ashby 46; Fol. 46v/Ashby 78; Fol. 53v/Ashby 92; Fol. 68r/Ashby 116; Fol. 69r/Ashby 117; Fol. 72r/Ashby 122
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 47
Ackerman 1954, p. 196
Ackerman 1954, p. 196
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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