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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

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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