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Drawing 5 (bottom left): Column base seen in a church dedicated to San Salvatore
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Reference number
SM volume 115/136e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (bottom left): Column base seen in a church dedicated to San Salvatore
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:2
Inscribed
In ecclesia. S./ saluatoris. (‘In the church of San Salvatore’); [measurements]
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk, stylus lines and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
As the caption indicates, this small-scale example of a ‘Pantheon’ base, with two toruses, two scotias and twin astragals, was once to be found – like the one shown in Drawing 8 – in a church dedicated to San Salvatore. Ashby concluded, probably correctly, that this was San Salvatore in Lauro, which is located close to the southern bank of the River Tiber across from the Castel Sant’Angelo. It was perhaps among ancient spolia used for the construction of the medieval church (Armellini 1942, pp. 448–51) but was lost when the church was entirely rebuilt by Ottaviano Mascherino after a fire of 1591 (Pietrangeli 1968, pp. 54–58).
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 67
Census, ID 47205
Census, ID 47205
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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