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Drawing 1 (top left): Unidentified cornice
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Reference number
SM volume 115/115a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): Unidentified cornice
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale 1:4
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
Ashby was unable to identify this cornice which is distinctive in having a lengthy cyma recta beneath the corona. It may be the cornice of an entablature, although it could belong to a pedestal or an impost. A similar moulding, with an elongated cyma just below the corona and two cymas above it, was recorded by Baldassare Peruzzi on a sheet of studies and details all associated with the Temple of Venus and Rome, but it is not identical. The cornice is analogous to others recorded on this sheet in being devoid of surface decoration.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Baldassare Peruzzi] Florence, GDSU, 479 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 44; Wurm 1984, pl. 409)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Baldassare Peruzzi] Florence, GDSU, 479 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 44; Wurm 1984, pl. 409)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 56
Census, ID 45763
Census, ID 45763
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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