Drawing 4 (top right): Column base from the courtyard of the Palazzo della Cancelleria

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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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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

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 67
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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