Drawing 1: Frieze with putto and dog from the Baths of Caracalla

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/100

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Reference number

SM volume 115/100a

Purpose

Drawing 1: Frieze with putto and dog from the Baths of Caracalla

Aspect

Depiction of ornament

Scale

Not known

Inscribed

Alle Terme d’Antonino (‘In the baths of Antoninus’); 10 [in graphite]

Signed and dated

1625/35
Date range: 1625/35

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite

Hand

Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)

Notes

Added to the codex in the early seventeenth century, the drawing records a part of a frieze from the Baths of Caracalla (or ‘Antoninus’). A seemingly related drawing is to be found in a mid- sixteenth-century compilation in Berlin. This, however, also includes the architrave below and an ornamented cyma moulding above, and it shows the acanthus cawl on the left as being positioned not as part of a continuing design but at a corner. As Ashby noted, parts of friezes of similar decoration have been discovered in the complex’s frigidarium and peristyles. Like several others in the codex dating from the seventeenth century, the drawing is numbered in graphite.

RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 22 (Römische Skizzen 1988, pp. 152–56)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 13r and flap/Ashby 22

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 49
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 623–24
Census, ID 45569

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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