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Drawing 3 (top right): Cornice seen near the Arch of Titus
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Reference number
SM volume 115/116c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (top right): Cornice seen near the Arch of Titus
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:9
Inscribed
apud. arcu [m]. uespasiani. (‘Near the Arch of Vespasian’); [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, seen as the caption states near the ‘Arch of Vespasian’, better known as the Arch of Titus, is of unremarkable design. Apart from the copies of this drawing by Michelangelo and Francesco Borromini, both of the profile, no other representations of it are known.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Av: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 88–89); [Francesco Borromini] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 3826, inv. Thelen 1 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 11)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Av: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 88–89); [Francesco Borromini] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 3826, inv. Thelen 1 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 11)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 57
Census, ID 45814
Census, ID 45814
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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