Drawing 3 (top centre right): Unidentified column base

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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 115/136

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Reference number

SM volume 115/136c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (top centre right): Unidentified column base

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:6

Inscribed

[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, with its two toruses, two scotias and twin astragals, is a smaller version of the ‘Pantheon’ type but has an additional plinth at the bottom. It remains unidentified.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 67
Census, ID 46876

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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