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Drawing 10 (bottom centre-right): Impost from the Theatre of Marcellus’s lower storey
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Reference number
SM volume 115/116j
Purpose
Drawing 10 (bottom centre-right): Impost from the Theatre of Marcellus’s lower storey
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale 1:5
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
Unidentified by Ashby, this impost comes from the lower storey of the Theatre of Marcellus. It was earlier recorded by Giuliano da Sangallo in his Codex Barberini, where it has similar measurements, although there are enough differences to suggest that this was not the Coner drawing’s prototype. The impost was drawn a little later by an architect working in the circle of Antonio Labacco, where it is accompanied by a depiction of a moulding from the Septizodium, which is also the case here (see Drawing 11) and could imply that both were dependent on the same source.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 70v (Hülsen 1910, p. 73; Borsi 1985, pp. 243–45); [Circle of Antonio Labacco] Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Museum, Inv. 1932.271, fol. 10r (Burns 1984, p. 413)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 70v (Hülsen 1910, p. 73; Borsi 1985, pp. 243–45); [Circle of Antonio Labacco] Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Museum, Inv. 1932.271, fol. 10r (Burns 1984, p. 413)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 57
Census, ID 45823
Census, ID 45823
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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