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Drawing 6 (lower left): Entablature from the Arch of Titus
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Reference number
SM volume 115/95f
Purpose
Drawing 6 (lower left): Entablature from the Arch of Titus
Aspect
Perspectival elevation of a corner
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:22
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk and stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
Although of fairly standard design for the Corinthian and Composite orders, certain features of this entablature indicate that it is from the Arch of Titus. Not only does it have the same sequence of mouldings, but it also has modillions decorated on their undersides with what appear to be intertwining snakes (cf. Desgodetz 1682, p. 185) and then a corona ornamented with channelling. The drawing’s format of the drawing is the standard one in the codex for representing the corners of entablatures, the subject shown frontally and from below to allow a glimpse of the cornice’s side receding behind. Like the others on this sheet, the drawing was executed over a partly visible black-chalk sketch, which in this instance shows the frieze decorated (as it is in reality) with figures, one standing and another recumbent, these in the end never being inked in.
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 35r/Ashby 56; Fol. 57r/Ashby 97; Fol. 81r/Ashby 134; Fol. 89r/Ashby 147
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 35r/Ashby 56; Fol. 57r/Ashby 97; Fol. 81r/Ashby 134; Fol. 89r/Ashby 147
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 48
Census, ID 47186
Census, ID 47186
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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