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Drawing 3: Frieze from the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
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Reference number
SM volume 115/100c
Purpose
Drawing 3: Frieze from the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
Aspect
Depiction of ornament
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:14
Inscribed
In campo Vaccino (‘In the Campo Vaccino [cow pasture]’); 12 [in graphite]
Signed and dated
- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Hand
Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)
Notes
Again added in the seventeenth century, this drawing of a frieze, embellished with a gryphon, candelabra and a double scroll of acanthus, bears the caption in campo Vaccino (‘Cow Pasture’), the common name for the Roman Forum at the time the drawing was made. The caption helps to identify the drawing’s subject as the frieze of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum, built by Antoninus Pius from 141 CE, which was drawn repeatedly in the sixteenth century. Perhaps the drawing’s closest surviving parallel is one in a mid- sixteenth-century compilation now in Naples, which shows the same portion of the frieze, although in conjunction with smaller-scale depictions of the architrave and cornice. The two drawings are presumably dependent on the same now-lost prototype. This drawing, like other Cassiano additions to the Codex Coner, carries a number written in graphite.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Naples, BNN, Ms XII D 74, fol. 11v (Lanzarini 2020, p. 507)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Naples, BNN, Ms XII D 74, fol. 11v (Lanzarini 2020, p. 507)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 49
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 623–24
Census, ID 45572
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 623–24
Census, ID 45572
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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