Drawing 3 (top right): Half-column base from the Arch of Titus

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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 115/134

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SM volume 115/134c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (top right): Half-column base from the Arch of Titus

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:3

Inscribed

arci. Titi. et/ uespasiani./ media. Pars (‘Middle part of the Arch of Titus and Vespasian’); [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, as the caption indicates, is from the Arch of Titus’s surviving central bay (cf. Fol. 35r/Ashby 56), and it of the same type used for the ground storey of the Pantheon except that it has a double plinth. It was previously recorded, in elevational format, by Giuliano da Sangallo in his Codex Barberini, and in subsequent elevational studies by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo and others. A later copy drawing by Andrea Palladio shows the base in a similar section-plus-view format, although from below rather than from above.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 63 (Hülsen 1910, p. 63; Borsi 1985, p. 135); [Antonio da Sangallo the Younger] Florence, GDSU, 1231 Ar and 1255 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, pp. 69–70; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 153 and 158–59); [Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo] Florence, GDSU, 1650 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 103; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 196); [Andrea Palladio] Vicenza Museo Civico, D 9r (Zorzi 1959, pp. 55–56; Puppi 1989, p. 104)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 35r/Ashby 56; Fol. 56r/Ashby 95; Fol. 57r/Ashby 97; Fol. 82v/Ashby 137; Fol. 89r/Ashby 147

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 66
Günther 1988, p. 338
Census, ID 46814

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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