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Reference number

SM volume 115/134e

Purpose

Drawing 5 (bottom centre): Column base from the bronze columns in San Giovanni in Laterano

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:6

Inscribed

colu [m]n [a]e metalli. in. S./ iouan [n]e. inlate./ rano. (‘Columns of metal in San Giovanni in Laterano’); [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, again of the ‘Pantheon’ type with two toruses, two scotias and twin astragals, is that, as the caption describes, of the four fluted bronze columns in San Giovanni in Laterano, which were later reused for the Altar of the Sacrament (c.1575; Freiburg 1991) in the south transept. The columns had previously formed part of an altar screen, or fastigium, which had been spoliated from an unidentified ancient monument (Liverani 1992–93; De Blaauw 1996). The base was later depicted in two drawings by Andrea Palladio.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Andrea Palladio] London, RIBA, Palladio XII, fol. 3v and Palladio XIV, fol. 2r (Zorzi 1959, pp. 80 and 104)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 67
Census, ID 46830

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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