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Drawing 4 (top right): Column base from the courtyard of the Palazzo della Cancelleria
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Reference number
SM volume 115/136d
Purpose
Drawing 4 (top right): Column base from the courtyard of the Palazzo della Cancelleria
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:5
Inscribed
.in. palatio. Car[dinalis]/ S. Georgij. (‘In the palace of the Cardinal of San Giorgio’); [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 shown here, with two toruses, two scotias and twin astragals, is again of the ‘Pantheon’ type (cf. Drawing 1) but is much smaller in size and has an additional plinth at the bottom. As the caption indicates, it comes from the palace of the Cardinal of San Giorgio, the building known today as the Palazzo della Cancelleria, and it is, more specifically, the base of the richly ornamental Doric columns of the courtyard’s middle storey, one of which is shown in full earlier in the codex (Fol. 41v/Ashby 68). It is perhaps the earliest example of such a base in the Renaissance period, the palace being under construction in 1496 (Valtieri 1982, p. 18). Involved in the construction was a Bernardino ingegniere (ibid.), who was possibly Bernardo della Volpaia.
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 32 r/Ashby 51; Fol. 41v/Ashby 68; Fol. 49r/Ashby 83; Fol. 70r/Ashby 119
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 32 r/Ashby 51; Fol. 41v/Ashby 68; Fol. 49r/Ashby 83; Fol. 70r/Ashby 119
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 67
Günther 1988, p. 338
Günther 1988, p. 338
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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