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Drawing 2 (top right): Cornice seen near the Ponte Sisto
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Reference number
SM volume 115/115b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top right): Cornice seen near the Ponte Sisto
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale 1:7
Inscribed
.apud. po [n]tem. Sixti. (‘Near the Ponte Sisto’); [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 cornice is identified as having been seen near the Ponte Sisto, a bridge begun by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473 as a replacement for the ancient Pons Aurelius (largely destroyed in 772 CE) in order to improve access to the Vatican for the approaching Jubilee of 1475 (Schraven 2012). Another drawing of the cornice is included Giuliano da Sangallo’s Codex Barberini, where it is described as being at the bridge’s ‘foot’ (pie). Whether it was a part of the ancient bridge or of an adjacent structure is not known. To judge from the cyma moulding on top of the cornice, which recedes sharply from the front, it may have once belonged to a pedestal.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 70v (Hülsen 1910, p. 73; Borsi 1985, pp. 243–44)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 70v (Hülsen 1910, p. 73; Borsi 1985, pp. 243–44)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 56
Census, ID 45774
Census, ID 45774
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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