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Drawing 5 (bottom right): Architrave seen near San Macuto
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Reference number
SM volume 115/112e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (bottom right): Architrave seen near San Macuto
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:11
Inscribed
estra. S./ mautum. (‘Outside San Macuto’)
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 architrave, although highly decorated like the other three on the sheet, differs from them in its details, having foliate decoration on the cyma, bud-like ornament on the middle fillet and twisted-band embellishment on the bottom one. The drawing also includes the profile of part of the soffit which had an inset panel. Ashby identified the church mentioned in the caption as being the San Macuto located close to Piazza Sant’Ignazio near the site of the ancient Iseum. An architrave with an identical sequence of mouldings, however, was drawn by Giuliano da Sangallo in the Codex Barberini, and this is specified as having been ’inside the portico’ of the Lateran Baptistery (dentro al porticho del Bagnio Dighostantino’ i [n] Roma). An architrave of this design was also drawn by an associate of Michelangelo.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 38v (Hülsen 1910, p. 55; Borsi 1985, p. 200); [Circle of Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 5Ar (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 46)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 38v (Hülsen 1910, p. 55; Borsi 1985, p. 200); [Circle of Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 5Ar (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 46)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 55
Lembke 1994, p. 155
Census, ID 45712
Lembke 1994, p. 155
Census, ID 45712
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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