To an approximate scale of 1:14

ante. S. nicolau[m]. in/ carcere. tulliani. (‘In front of San Nicola in the Carcere Tulliano’); [measurements]

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines

Bernardo della Volpaia

The church of San Nicola ‘in Carcere’ was already known by this name in the eleventh century, although it subsequently acquired the additional appellation ‘Tulliano’ (Hülsen 1927, p. 392), the designation in the caption. It is located in what was the ancient Forum Holitorium on the site of three former temples, the comment that the cornice was seen ‘in front of’ (ante) the church suggesting that it may have belonged to one of them. The cornice is comparable to the one, recorded in various sixteenth-century drawings, from the portal of the northernmost temple, now identified as the Temple of Janus (Crozzoli Aite 1981, pp. 87–96), and partly incorporated into the church’s northern flank; but the cornice in the Coner drawing differs in its detailing from the ones shown in drawings by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Baldassare Peruzzi, in having an ornamented cyma and a row of bead and real beneath the egg-and-dart. It is, however, broadly similar to the one depicted by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, even though this has an undecorated cyma and a plain band below the egg-and-dart that is considerably larger.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Antonio da Sangallo the Younger] Florence, GDSU, 1174 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, pp. 88–89; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, pp. 125–27); [Baldassare Peruzzi] Florence, GDSU, 486 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 50; Wurm 1984, pl. 440); [Giovanni Battista da Sangallo] London, RIBA, Codex Rootstein-Hopkins, fol. 13r (Campbell–Nesselrath 2006, pp. 20–29; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, pp. 249–50)

Ashby 1904, p. 53
Census, ID 45497

Drawing

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