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Drawing 1 (top left): Cornice once in the church of Santa Francesca Romana (formerly Santa Maria Nuova)
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Reference number
SM volume 115/110a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): Cornice once in the church of Santa Francesca Romana (formerly Santa Maria Nuova)
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:8
Inscribed
sub. porticalem. S [antae]. m [ariae]. n [uovae]. (‘Beneath the portico of Santa Maria Nuova’); [measurements]
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The cornice fragment is recorded in the caption as being under the portico of the church of Santa Maria Nova (later refurbished and renamed Santa Francesca Romana following the installation there of this saint’s relics in 1638), which straddles the western end of the much spoliated second-century Temple of Venus and Rome (Armellini 1942, pp. 193–96). It is broadly typical of a Corinthian cornice except that it is lacking its corona and cyma, which were perhaps made from a separate piece of stone. It has egg-and-dart both above and below a row of dentils, and in this respect as well as in size, it is similar to the cornice from the locality of the same church drawn at the bottom of the page, although in that case the dentils are replaced by a plain band. Given where it was seen, it came from either the Temple of Venus and Rome or one of the grand buildings nearby.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 54
Census, ID 45488
Census, ID 45488
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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