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Reference number

SM volume 115/115g

Purpose

Drawing 7 (bottom right): Moulding from Santi Cosma e Damiano

Aspect

Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale 1:14

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

Not identified by Ashby, this unassuming moulding was also recorded in a perspectival drawing by Giuliano da Sangallo, which specifies that it was in the church of Santi Cosma e Damiano near the Roman Forum, but without giving further details. It was depicted just a little later on by a member of the circle of Antonio Labacco. The Coner drawing again came to the attention of Michelangelo who copied the profile.

RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Av: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 90–91)

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 38v (Hülsen 1910, p. 55; Borsi 1985, pp. 198–200); [Circle of Antonio Labacco] Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Museum, Inv. 1932.271, fol. 4r (Burns 1984, p. 413)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 14r/Ashby 23)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 56
Census, ID 45785

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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