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Drawing 2 (top right): Entablature seen near Palazzo della Valle
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Reference number
SM volume 115/106b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top right): Entablature seen near Palazzo della Valle
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:14
Inscribed
prope. Domu[m]/ auallo[rum] (‘Close to the house of the Della Valle’); [measurements]
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 entablature, of unknown origin and not recorded in any other drawing, is unremarkable in its design apart from the corona having a soffit unusually decorated with fluting, and dentils seemingly embellished with foliage. Described in the caption as being seen ‘close to’ (prope) the Della Valle palace, which is situated near today’s Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, it probably did not belong, therefore, to the extensive collection of antiquities assembled there (Bober–Rubinstein 1986, pp. 479–80; Christian 2010, pp. 383–88).
The drawing has significant pentimenti. The raking lines of the cornice which originally extended as far as the adjacent drawing have been partly erased. Either the inking-in of the stylus lines was mistakenly continued too far to the left, or the drawing was originally intended to abut the one to its left, even overlapping it slightly at the top, before being truncated so as to be more consistent with the depictions of other entablatures in the codex.
The drawing has significant pentimenti. The raking lines of the cornice which originally extended as far as the adjacent drawing have been partly erased. Either the inking-in of the stylus lines was mistakenly continued too far to the left, or the drawing was originally intended to abut the one to its left, even overlapping it slightly at the top, before being truncated so as to be more consistent with the depictions of other entablatures in the codex.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 52
Census, ID 45492
Census, ID 45492
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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