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Drawing 7 (bottom left): Unidentified cornice
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Reference number
SM volume 115/95g
Purpose
Drawing 7 (bottom left): Unidentified cornice
Aspect
Orthogonal view of a corner
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This feature is rather like a cornice in having a cyma at the top, followed by a corona (enriched with channelling), egg-and-dart, and a cyma reversa. The arrangement at the bottom, however, where there is a roll moulding and a cavetto, suggests it could be an impost. The freehand execution is characteristic of many drawings executed after 1514.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 48
Ashby 1913, p. 205
Census, ID 45651
Ashby 1913, p. 205
Census, ID 45651
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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