Drawing 3 (bottom, centre left): Unidentified architrave

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/112

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Reference number

SM volume 115/112c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (bottom, centre left): Unidentified architrave

Aspect

Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:10

Inscribed

[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

This architrave, which is unlabelled and has not been identified, is of the same design as those on either side, although the drawing also shows the profile of the soffit which appears to have had a panel set into it. It is almost the same in size, too, as the one depicted to its right.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 55
Census, ID 45625

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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