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Drawing 6 (top left): Arch and flanking piers from the top terrace of the Cortile del Belvedere
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Reference number
SM volume 115/25f
Purpose
Drawing 6 (top left): Arch and flanking piers from the top terrace of the Cortile del Belvedere
Aspect
Plan, with measurement
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:160
Inscribed
[letter] .E.; [measurement]
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 plan, labelled ‘E’, shows two of the piers bordering the top terrace, and it establishes that they are rather different in shape from those depicted on the overall plan, where they are almost square rather than the elongated rectangles depicted here. It also makes clear that they are articulated with pairs of pilasters. The two piers are drawn slightly differently from each other, the upper one with narrower projections from the wall surface and with a niche between them, and the lower one with wider projections and no niche. These differences represent the piers at two different levels, the upper one showing pilasters at the level of the niche, as also seen in the elevational study of the top terrace (Fol. 27v/Ashby 44), and the lower one showing the wider pedestals beneath them. In both the plan and the elevational study, the width of the piers is put at 7 braccia.
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: see Drawing 1
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
Ashby 1913, pp. 197–200
Ackerman 1954, pp. 193–95
Level
Drawing
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