To an approximate scale of 1:340

[Measurements]

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

Pen and brown ink and light brown wash over stylus lines compass pricks

Bernardo della Volpaia

This internal elevation is of one bay of the Temple of Minerva Medica’s main space. It depicts the bay opposite the main entrance, as is clear from the small door which is also seen in the principal plan of the building (Drawing 1), and corresponds to the upper-level plan immediately above it (Drawing 2). Showing the alcove, the arched window of the upper level and one segment of the decagonal vault, it is closely related to two near-identical elevational drawings on the same page of Giuliano da Sangallo’s Codex Barberini, but it differs from them in showing the bay with the door rather than one of the others, and does not include either the scallop shell half dome or the continuous impost supporting it, for which there may not have been any verifying evidence. It also elongates the vault segment above making it more like the existing structure. The measurements given are the same, except for adding the distance from the edge of the alcove to the corner of the central space.

The drawing, like the elevations in the Codex Barberini, is rendered in perspective but differs by looking down into the alcove rather than upwards. It is drawn to the same scale as the plan above it, and to a rather larger scale than the main plan.

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 2 on this page)

Census, ID 44005

Drawing

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