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Drawing 2 (top centre): Column base probably from the Basilica Ulpia
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Reference number
SM volume 115/134b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top centre): Column base probably from the Basilica Ulpia
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:6
Inscribed
in templo panteonis. (‘In the temple of the Pantheon’) [erased]; ad [...] s. iouan[n]e in laterano (‘At St John Lateran’) [erased]; apud./ colu[m]nam/ trojana (‘Near Trajan’s Column’); [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 and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This base of the Pantheon type was misidentified – twice – by the draughtsman, who at first labelled it (at the top) as coming from the Pantheon, and then (in the same place as the final caption) as from San Giovanni in Laterano, before erasing both and finally giving the correct location. The mistake is easily understood as bases of this type were to be found in both the Pantheon and San Giovanni in Laterano and were in fact illustrated below on the same page (Drawings 4 and 5 respectively).
Otherwise unrecorded, this enormous base was seen – as the caption tells us – near Trajan’s Column and almost certainly came from the Basilica Ulpia. With a plinth measuring 2 braccia and 40 minutes (1.55m), it corresponds closely in size and design to a surviving fragmentary base from the basilica (Packer 1997, 1, pp. 303–04 and 2, plate 75.6). It is very similar in size and design, as well, to a base probably likewise from the basilica that is drawn on a later page (see Cat. Fol. 82r/Ashby 136 Drawing 2).
Otherwise unrecorded, this enormous base was seen – as the caption tells us – near Trajan’s Column and almost certainly came from the Basilica Ulpia. With a plinth measuring 2 braccia and 40 minutes (1.55m), it corresponds closely in size and design to a surviving fragmentary base from the basilica (Packer 1997, 1, pp. 303–04 and 2, plate 75.6). It is very similar in size and design, as well, to a base probably likewise from the basilica that is drawn on a later page (see Cat. Fol. 82r/Ashby 136 Drawing 2).
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 66
Census, ID 46813
Census, ID 46813
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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