Folio 60 recto (Ashby 101): Entablature possibly from Albano

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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)

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Reference number

SM volume 115/101

Purpose

Folio 60 recto (Ashby 101): Entablature possibly from Albano

Aspect

Perspectival elevation of a corner

Scale

Not known

Inscribed

[Drawing] 14 [in graphite] [Mount] 101 [x2]

Signed and dated

1625/35
Date range: 1625/35

Medium and dimensions

[Drawing] Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite; on laid paper (232x159mm), one rounded corner at bottom left, inlaid (back to front with respect to original foliation, window on verso of mount) [Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart

Hand

Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)

Watermark

[Drawing] None [Mount] Fleur-de-lys in circle topped with crown (variant 3; cut by bottom edge of window)

Notes

Although Ashby suspected that the entablature was an invention, Campbell observed that the drawing has a near-duplicate in one from the mid-sixteenth century now in Berlin, which specifies that the entablature was seen in Albano, and he suggested that the two drawings had a common prototype. The entablature itself has a richly decorated frieze, featuring a tunic, a cuirass and part of an Ionic capital, and it is of the type with no modillions, like one depicted in another seventeenth-century drawing in the codex (Fol. 58v/Ashby 99). This drawing, like others added at this time, is numbered in graphite.

RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 8 (Römische Skizzen 1988, pp. 152–56)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 50
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 625–26
Census, ID 47193

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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