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- c.1513/14
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The cornices shown in the Coner drawing and in these later depictions, as well as in others including one by ‘Pseudo-Giocondo’, are certainly identical in both composition and decoration, which includes the channelling seen very unusually on the cyma. The Coner drawing, however, differs from these others in recording a full entablature instead of the cornice alone, in giving the measurements in braccia rather than other dimensional units, and in adopting the section-plus-raking view format rather than that of a frontal view of a corner.
The drawing has many pentimenti – especially clear in the architrave – revealing that it was originally planned to show a narrower portion of the entablature. Its enlargement allowed more of the surface detailing to be represented.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Circle of Antonio Labacco] Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Museum, Inv. 1932.271, fol. 2r (Burns 1984, p. 413); [‘Pseudo-Giocondo’] Florence, GDSU, 2050 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 17; [Giovannantonio Dosio] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, OZ 109 (Codex Destailleur A), fol. 1r
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Günther 1988, p. 338
Census, ID 45489
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