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Drawing 2 (top left): Elaborate Doric capital once in Palazzo Della Valle
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Reference number
SM volume 115/120b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top left): Elaborate Doric capital once in Palazzo Della Valle
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of side, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:7
Inscribed
In. domo. auallis. (‘In the house of the Della Valle’)
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, traces of black chalk and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
With its fluted neck and egg-and-dart echinus, the Doric capital is one of three on this page that are of similar type and drawn in exactly the same manner, a section combined with a view, which also allows a dowel hole to be seen – although there would not have been one so high up the shaft. This example, which as the caption indicates was in the Della Valle collection, was recorded just a little later in the same location in an orthogonal drawing by the anonymous draughtsman now known as ‘Pseudo-Giocondo’. The Coner drawing was copied by Michelangelo, but he depicted the capital as if from the front.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] London, BM, 1859-6-25-560/1v (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, pp. 47–48; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 94–95)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [‘Pseudo-Giocondo’] Florence, GDSU, 1882 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 16)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] London, BM, 1859-6-25-560/1v (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, pp. 47–48; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 94–95)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [‘Pseudo-Giocondo’] Florence, GDSU, 1882 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 16)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 60
Census, ID 45839
Census, ID 45839
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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