Not known

[in graphite] 2

• c.1625/35
  Date range: c.1625/35

Pen and brown ink and pink-brown wash over graphite or black chalk and compass pricks

Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)

The plan relates to the interior view drawn above it. It shows the structure to have been rectangular, broader than deep, with a large apse projecting from the back on axis with the entrance, inside which is a further recess. It then depicts quarter-columns at the corners, flat side walls accommodating shallow recesses, and, at the front, a narrow doorway with window to either side. There are many discrepancies with the view (see Drawing 1), suggesting that as the drawings were copied probably multiple times the plan remained closer to the original than the view. The plan corresponds closely to an earlier one from the mid- sixteenth century in Padua, and another in Saint Petersburg, except that neither includes the façade windows, and the Padua plan also omits the apse recess, which suggests that the Coner drawing was derived from a separate source.

It has been suggested (Campbell 2004) that the number ‘2’ was written in graphite beside the plan when Cassiano dal Pozzo began to add drawings to the compilation before its transformation into an album.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Circle of Bartolomeo Ammannati] Padua, BUP, Ms. 764, fol 14v (Olivato 1978); [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 5v (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, p. 91)

OTHER DRAWING IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 16v/Ashby 27 (Drawing 1 on this folio)

Ashby 1904, p. 27
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 611–12
Census, ID 46785

Drawing

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