Folio 81 recto (Ashby 135): Column base seen near the Capitol

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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)

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Reference number

SM volume 115/135

Purpose

Folio 81 recto (Ashby 135): Column base seen near the Capitol

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:6

Inscribed

[Drawing] sub. Capitolio (‘Below the Capitol’); [measurements]
[Mount] 135 [x2]
[Verso] 8

Signed and dated

c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14

Medium and dimensions

[Drawing] Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines and compass pricks; on laid paper (233x167mm), rounded corners at left, inlaid (back to front with respect to original foliation, window on verso of mount)
[Verso] Blank
[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart
[Verso of mount] Window (224x157mm)

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Watermark

[Drawing] Anchor in circle topped with six-pointed star (variant 4; cut at right) [Mount] Figure shown kneeling and holding a cross-topped staff set in a shield (variant 3)

Notes

This large base with a plinth of about 1.5 metres in width was seen, as the caption states, ‘below’ the Capitol, but is otherwise unrecorded. With two toruses, two scotias and a single astragal between them, it has a profile like the pilaster bases on the upper storey of the Pantheon’s interior. Far smaller bases of the same profile-type are also illustrated on the following folio. In depicting the base’s left-hand side, the drawing differs in format from the many on the codex’s neighbouring pages that all show the right-hand side. Its position in the page’s bottom-right corner indicates that other drawings were originally planned to be shown in its company, presumably all with the same reversed format.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 67
Census, ID 46866

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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