Drawing 2 (top right): Details of the superstructure above the capital of Trajan’s Column

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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 115/129

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Reference number

SM volume 115/129b

Purpose

Drawing 2 (top right): Details of the superstructure above the capital of Trajan’s Column

Aspect

Orthogonal elevation, with measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale 1:22

Inscribed

.a.; .b.; .c.; [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

The drawing depicts the horizontal mouldings belonging to the cylindrical superstructure of Trajan’s Column, which is also seen in the drawing immediately below. The sides of the cylinder, to show them at an increased scale, have been elided or concertinaed, necessitating the use of a set of letters to indicate how the mouldings actually relate to the drawing below: ‘a’ is the plinth’s base moulding, ‘b’ is the crowning moulding of its lower component, and ‘c’ is the moulding above (b) that forms the base of the column’s damaged upper element.

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 42r/Ashby 69; Fol. 53r/Ashby 91; Fol. 64r/Ashby 109; Fol. 76r/Ashby 129 (elsewhere on this page)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 64
Census, ID 45323

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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