To an approximate scale of 1:30

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

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

Bernardo della Volpaia

What is shown here are the various mouldings of the adjacent elevation, one above the other and eliding the vertical elements in between. The two parts are essentially the same as two drawings in the Codex Barberini positioned either side of the mausoleum’s plan, one of the pedestal zone (left) and the other of the columnar and pilaster zone (right), except that here the two details are fused together, a plinth is erroneously added below the base of the pedestal, and a portion of the archivolt of the surviving arch is added above the impost capital (although shifted out of alignment with it). The Coner details, therefore, were seemingly based on very similar depictions, but without them being fully understood. They were copied later by Michelangelo, except that he separated the pedestal from the impost and archivolt, which he perhaps also drew on a separate sheet (now in London), although in rather generic form. At the bottom of the Coner drawing, and easy to confuse with the moulding details, are the top and bottom of a pedestal begun in error as part of the adjacent elevation.

RELATED IMAGES: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 41v (Hülsen 1910, 1, pp. xlii and 58; Borsi 1985, p. 211; [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 2Av: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 48; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 106–07); [Michelangelo] London, BM, 1859-6-25-560/2r (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 45; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 98–99)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 31r (Ashby 49) Drawing 1

Ashby 1904, p. 34
Census, ID 48096

Drawing

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