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Drawing 2 (bottom): Elaborate column base in San Bartolomeo all’Isola
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Reference number
SM volume 115/125b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (bottom): Elaborate column base in San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Aspect
Half section with perspectival elevation from above, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:7
Inscribed
in. s. bartolomeo./ insulae (‘In San Bartolomeo all’Isola’); isto. dado. est. brachia. Duo (‘This plinth is 2 braccia [wide]’); [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, traces of black chalk and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
As the caption indicates, this base was seen in San Bartolomeo all’Isola and, as Ashby noted, it is one of the two that face one another supporting the third columns from the entrance. The drawing actually shows rather more of the base than can be seen today, because the floor level has been raised, and it includes the plinth, now hidden, which has a panel set into its face. The drawing is accurate in its recording of both the profile (the plinth being followed by a torus, scotia, astragal, scotia and cyma) and the surface decoration (banded laurel, anthemion, bead-and-reel, fluting and acanthus). The base was regularly depicted, appearing previously in a drawing by Francesco di Giorgio, and in the Codex Barberini and Codex Escurialensis.
The drawing, like the one above it, follows the format of a frontal view with a quadrant removed to show the profile, and has a correction made at the left to the receding line of the plinth. It was partly copied by Michelangelo showing just the front, and also copied later by Francesco Borromini.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 86–87); [Francesco Borromini] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 3829, inv. Thelen 3 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 12)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Francesco di Giorgio] Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Codex Saluzziano 148, addendum, fols 99r and 100v (Martini 1967, p. 289); [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 15r (Hülsen 1910, p. 28; Borsi 1985, p. 106); [Anon.] El Escorial, Real Monasterio, 28-II-12 (Codex Escurialensis), fols 23r and 49v (Egger 1906, pp. 86 and 126)
The drawing, like the one above it, follows the format of a frontal view with a quadrant removed to show the profile, and has a correction made at the left to the receding line of the plinth. It was partly copied by Michelangelo showing just the front, and also copied later by Francesco Borromini.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 86–87); [Francesco Borromini] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, HdZ 3829, inv. Thelen 3 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 12)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Francesco di Giorgio] Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Codex Saluzziano 148, addendum, fols 99r and 100v (Martini 1967, p. 289); [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 15r (Hülsen 1910, p. 28; Borsi 1985, p. 106); [Anon.] El Escorial, Real Monasterio, 28-II-12 (Codex Escurialensis), fols 23r and 49v (Egger 1906, pp. 86 and 126)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 63
Census, ID 45671
Census, ID 45671
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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