To an approximate scale of 1:12

[Measurements]

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines and compass pricks

Bernardo della Volpaia

This entablature is not recorded in any other surviving drawing from the Renaissance period. The cornice, however, is very close to that of the Colosseum’s Ionic second storey, which, strangely, is unrepresented among the labelled details from this monument included in the codex, but the architrave is a little too elaborate in having subsidiary mouldings above and below its three fascias, which are lacking in the Colosseum’s actual architrave (see Desgodetz 1682, p. 299). Nevertheless, it could be that the entablature is supposed to be from the Colosseum even though the architrave is shown incorrectly, which is reasonable given that the neighbouring drawing is unquestionably an entablature from this building.

The entablature is grouped with others on this and neighbouring pages presumably on account of its severe style.

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 2r/Ashby 2; Fol. 2v/Ashby 3; Fol. 3r/Ashby 4; Fol. 3v/Ashby 5; Fol. 25 and flap recto/Ashby 39; Fol. 25 verso of flap/Ashby 39a; Fol. 25v/Ashby 40; Fol. 26r/Ashby 41; Fol. 66r/Ashby 113; Fol. 66v/Ashby 114 (Drawing 2 on this page); Fol. 83v/Ashby 137)

Ashby 1904, p. 55
Census, ID 45728

Drawing

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