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Drawing 2 (left): Architrave and frieze once in San Marco
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Reference number
SM volume 115/98b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (left): Architrave and frieze once in San Marco
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:8
Inscribed
.in. S. marco. (‘In San Marco’)
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk and stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The frieze of this otherwise unrecorded fragment is decorated with acanthus coils while, unusually, all three of the architrave’s fascias are also ornamented, the topmost with bucrania, swags and bell-like forms. That the cornice was missing rather than simply left undrawn is indicated by the neat positioning of the caption just above the frieze’s angled upper edge. The drawing must have been added to the sheet after its companion had been executed, as is suggested by their close proximity, as well as by its closeness to the sheet’s edge, and the wrapping of the section around the architrave of the neighbouring drawing.
Although the fragment is recorded in the caption as being in San Marco, no trace of it can be found there now, and it was probably lost when the church underwent its major seventeenth-century refurbishment.
Although the fragment is recorded in the caption as being in San Marco, no trace of it can be found there now, and it was probably lost when the church underwent its major seventeenth-century refurbishment.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 49
Census, ID 45449
Census, ID 45449
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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