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