To an approximate scale of 1:7

.p [ulchrum]. uidere. (‘Belvedere’); [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

The design of this moulding, with its cyma below the corona and its astragal at the bottom, is consistent with that of an impost, and the annotation states that it comes from the Cortile del Belvedere, although it does not specify from which part. The impost can be identified, however, as being from the ground storey arcades of the lowest terrace. It is recorded by Letarouilly (1963, 2–3, p. 132), except that his illustration shows a cavetto rather than a cyma beneath the corona, and the impost’s position is shown on Fols 27r and 28r/Ashby 43 and 45. On this sheet, the impost is grouped, as on the preceding page (Fol. 67r/Ashby 115), with other unadorned architectural mouldings, which are mostly cornices and imposts.

The drawing was copied in just profile by Francesco Borromini.

RELATED IMAGES: [Francesco Borromini] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 3826, inv. Thelen 1 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 11)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 15r/Ashby 25; Fol. 27r/Ashby 43); Fol. 27v/Ashby 44; Fol. 28r/Ashby 45; Fol. 28v/Ashby 46; Fol. 46v/Ashby 78; Fol. 53v/Ashby 92; Fol. 54r/Ashby 93/ Fol. 69r/Ashby 117; Fol. 72r/Ashby 122

Ashby 1904, p. 56
Ackerman 1954, p. 196

Drawing

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