Drawing 6 (second row right): Cornice once in the Lateran Baptistery

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- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/116

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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)

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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