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Drawing 2: So-called Temple of Minerva Medica, upper storey bay
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Reference number
SM volume 115/15b
Purpose
Drawing 2: So-called Temple of Minerva Medica, upper storey bay
Aspect
Plan, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:340
Inscribed
[Measurements]
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This plan is of one of the bays of the ten-sided central space of the Temple of Minerva Medica at a height above the attached alcove, and it corresponds to the one-bay elevational drawing below it (Drawing 3). Like the other drawings on the sheet, it closely parallels one by Giuliano da Sangallo in the Codex Barberini, and it similarly depicts the bay directly opposite the main entrance. It covers slightly less of the rotunda than the Sangallo drawing, by excluding the portion of the adjacent bay to the right but it carries the same set of measurements, except for the one recording the width of the corner pier, omitted in the Codex Barberini but specified here as 7¼ braccia, a dimension that could have been calculated from others that are given.
The plan, like the accompanying elevation, is drawn to a slightly larger scale than the main plan. This may have been because the drawing would have otherwise appeared too small on the page, and there was space to make it larger.
RELATED IMAGES: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 6r (Hülsen 1910, 1, p. 12)
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 9r/Ashby 15 (Drawings 1 and 3 on this folio)
The plan, like the accompanying elevation, is drawn to a slightly larger scale than the main plan. This may have been because the drawing would have otherwise appeared too small on the page, and there was space to make it larger.
RELATED IMAGES: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 6r (Hülsen 1910, 1, p. 12)
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 9r/Ashby 15 (Drawings 1 and 3 on this folio)
Literature
Census, ID 44006
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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