Drawing 5 (bottom left): Unidentified base moulding of a pedestal

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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 115/113

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Reference number

SM volume 115/113e

Purpose

Drawing 5 (bottom left): Unidentified base moulding of a pedestal

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

At first sight this unidentified base moulding, probably from the bottom of a pedestal, might appear to be connected to the cornice immediately above (Drawing 3), but they are in fact unrelated as is rather confirmed by the evident mismatch at their junction. That they are indeed unconnected was realised by Michelangelo when he copied the two drawings separately.

RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 2Av: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 48; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 112–13)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 55
Census, ID 45715

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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