Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:150
Inscribed
[letter key] .D.; [measurements]
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
As the key letter ‘D’ makes clear, this plan-detail relates to the side-loggias of the Cortile’s lower terrace, but it shows the space between the piers and the wall behind as compressed to allow the drawing to fit on the sheet. A similar abbreviation is seen in the representations of the column or pilaster shafts of Bramante’s Tegurio (Fol. 47r/Ashby 79) and the Mausoleum of Hadrian (Fol. 56v/Ashby 96). That the compression here is a draughting convention and not an error is indicated by the given measurements, which mostly correspond with those specified on the two elevational drawings of the lower terrace in the codex: the width of the arched opening is again given as 10 braccia on the orthogonal elevation (Fol. 28r/Ashby 45), and the distance between the pier and the back wall is similarly put at 10 braccia on the perspectival elevation (Fol. 27r/Ashby 43). The number ‘10’ (i.e. 10 braccia) written in the small gap between the pier and the back wall (bottom left) indicates a distance of 10 braccia despite the space being contracted.
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: see Drawing 1
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 23–26
Ashby 1913, pp. 197–200
Ackerman 1954, pp. 193–95
Level
Drawing
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