Drawing 4 (bottom left): Column base from the Pantheon’s internal lower storey

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- 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 115/134d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (bottom left): Column base from the Pantheon’s internal lower storey

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:6

Inscribed

In. Te[n]plo. Pa[n]teonis. [‘In the temple of the Pantheon’); [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

The base, as the caption indicates, is from the Pantheon, more specifically the fluted Corinthian order of the interior. With two toruses, two scotias and twin astragals, it is smaller but otherwise identical to the ‘Pantheon’ bases of the exterior portico (Fol. 82r/Ashby 136). It is meticulously recorded in an elevational drawing by Giuliano da Sangallo in the Codex Barberini, likewise depicting part of the base in section, and later representations include a drawing on a sheet of studies of the interior order by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 71r (Hülsen 1910, p. 74); [Antonio da Sangallo the Younger] Florence, GDSU, 1060 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 73; Frommel–Adams 2000, pp. 200–01)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 8r/Ashby 13; Fol. 23r/Ashby 35; Fol. 23v/Ashby 36; Fol. 24r/Ashby 37; Fol. 24v/Ashby 38; Fol. 38r/Ashby 61; Fol. 38v/Ashby 62; Fol. 39r/Ashby 63; Fol. 40r/Ashby 65; Fol. 50v/Ashby 86; Fol. 65r/Ashby 111; Fol. 80r/Ashby 134; Fol. 82r/Ashby 136

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 67
Günther 1988, p. 338
Census, ID 46657

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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