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Drawing 6 (second row right): Cornice once in the Lateran Baptistery
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Reference number
SM volume 115/116f
Purpose
Drawing 6 (second row right): Cornice once in the Lateran Baptistery
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:8
Inscribed
in. S. ioan [n]e in fonte (‘In San Giovanni in Fonte’); [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
As the annotation states, this cornice was once to be found in ’San Giovanni in Fonte’, or in other words the fourth-century Lateran Baptistery, although it is no longer there. Ashby suggested that it was originally over one of the entrance doors, since it is shown above a door in an early sixteenth-century elevational drawing once attributed to Fra’ Giocondo, which again locates the cornice at the Lateran Baptistery.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [‘Pseudo-Giocondo’] Florence, GDSU, 1542 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 15)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [‘Pseudo-Giocondo’] Florence, GDSU, 1542 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 15)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 57
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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