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Drawing 2: Elaborate unidentified column base
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Reference number
SM volume 115/131b
Purpose
Drawing 2: Elaborate unidentified column base
Aspect
Perspectival elevation (paired with one of a different base)
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk and stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This half of a composite image, produced around 1515, shows a base that is again unidentified. It has an undecorated plinth and then two toruses, one with cable moulding and the other with Lesbian decoration, followed by a cyma reversa with vertical foliate decoration, an astragal treated as a cable, a fluted scotia, an astragal made up of beads and a final torus of banded laurel. Some of the mouldings match, in shape or size, with mouldings belonging to the neighbouring base (see Drawing 1 for further discussion). The drawing was copied by Michelangelo but just as a profile, and 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] Vienna, Albertina, It. AZ (fol. 180; G XI, i): inv. Thelen 4 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 12)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 86–87); [Francesco Borromini] Vienna, Albertina, It. AZ (fol. 180; G XI, i): inv. Thelen 4 (Thelen 1967, 1, p. 12)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 65
Census, ID 45842
Census, ID 45842
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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