To an approximate scale of 1:8

Tria[rum] colu[m]na[rum]/ sub. palatio. Maiore (‘Of the three columns below the great palace’); [measurements]

• c.1513/14
  Datable to c.1513/14

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines and compass pricks

Bernardo della Volpaia

This drawing and the others arranged very neatly on the page follow the same format conventions used for those on the previous page (Fol. 79r), and they all depict bases broadly of the type found on the ground storey of the Pantheon (i.e. with two toruses and two scotias separated by twin astragals: see Fols 79r–80r/Ashby 133–34, passim). This particular example, as the caption indicates, comes from the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum, and it has an additional astragal above the upper torus. It was previously recorded no less than three times by Giuliano da Sangallo in the Codex Barberini, and one of these drawings (fol. 38v) is very like the Coner representation in depicting a portion of the base in an almost identical section-plus-view format, the only significant difference being that it shows the bottom of the fluted shaft in section and not as a partial view. The many subsequent depictions of the base include elevational studies by Antonio da Sangallo, Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo and Baldassare Peruzzi, and these, like the Coner and Barberini drawings, are all accompanied by numerous dimensions given in braccia and minutes. Their minor disagreements over the measurements suggest, however, that they depend ultimately upon independent surveys.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fols 38v, 63r and 71r (Hülsen 1910, pp. 55, 66 and 74; Borsi 1985, p. 200); [Antonio da Sangallo the Younger] Florence, GDSU, 2047 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 31; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 214); [Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo] Florence, GDSU, 1650 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 103; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 196); [Baldassare Peruzzi] Florence, GDSU, 632 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 58; Wurm 1984, pl. 463)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 41r/Ashby 67; Fol. 50r/Ashby 85

Ashby 1904, p. 66
Günther 1988, p. 338
Census, ID 46795

Drawing

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