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Drawing 4: Cornice from the pedestal of Trajan’s Column
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Reference number
SM volume 115/109d
Purpose
Drawing 4: Cornice from the pedestal of Trajan’s Column
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:8
Inscribed
.APVD. COLV [M]NA [M]. TROIANA [M]. (‘At Trajan’s Column’); [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
Recorded here, and identified in pseudo-antique capitals, is the same cornice from the pedestal of Trajan’s Column that was depicted previously (see Cat. Fol. 53r/Ashby 91). The two drawings are not identical, however. This one shows more of the acanthus decoration on the cyma and gives this moulding a slightly differently-curving profile; and it also indicates the top of the face of the pedestal below, which is omitted from the other drawing. The measurements (as Ashby noted) are also a little different, while the label is less specific about the cornice’s location. This suggests that the two drawings had different sources, and that the draughtsman may not have been aware they were of the same feature.
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 53r/Ashby 91; Fol. 76r/Ashby 129
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 53r/Ashby 91; Fol. 76r/Ashby 129
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 54
Census, ID 45335
Census, ID 45335
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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