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Reference number

SM volume 115/116i

Purpose

Drawing 9 (bottom centre-left): Doric capital designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

Aspect

Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale 1:12

Inscribed

antonij (‘Of Antonio’); [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 drawing is of a Doric capital which, as the annotation indicates, was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and, in referring to ‘Antonio’, it is one of four with such annotations in the codex (cf. Fols 48v/Ashby 82, 67r/Ashby 115 and 68r/Ashby 116 Drawing 5). Its inclusion on a page that otherwise represents cornices or imposts is anomalous, but it may have been because of its likely relationship with the drawing immediately above it, a design for an impost also by Antonio. The two drawings share similar dimensions (see Drawing 5), especially those in this one at the bottom of the capital’s neck, and they may have been closely related features. The capital is for a pilaster, but it is much larger than the capital shown in a preliminary design for the portal of Antonio’s Palazzo Baldassini (Fol. 48v/Ashby 82).

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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