Drawing 8 (bottom left): Unidentified impost or cornice

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- 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 115/116h

Purpose

Drawing 8 (bottom left): Unidentified impost or cornice

Aspect

Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:8

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

This moulding, either a cornice or an impost, rises from an astragal and frieze or neck and has a corona carried on a cyma. No other early drawing was made of the moulding apart from a copy by Michelangelo.

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

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 57
Census, ID 45819

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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