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Drawing 4 (bottom right): Unidentified elaborate column base
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Reference number
SM volume 115/132d
Purpose
Drawing 4 (bottom right): Unidentified elaborate 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 drawing, presumably a copy of an earlier one, dates from the same time and follows the same format as the rest on this page (for discussion see Folio 77r). The base depicted is again complex in design and very richly ornamented, having a lower torus embellished with foliate scrolls and a winged head, and a scotia with foliate decoration surmounted by an inverted fluted ovolo, this followed by twin astragals in the form of cabling, a cavetto and, finally, a small upper torus. No other drawings of the base are known apart from copies of this one made by Michelangelo and 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 5 (Thelen 1967, 1, pp. 12–13)
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 5 (Thelen 1967, 1, pp. 12–13)
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 65–66
Ashby 1913, p. 209
Census, ID 45886
Ashby 1913, p. 209
Census, ID 45886
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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