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Drawing 7 (bottom centre right): Column base from a property belonging to Cardinal Raffaele Riario
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Reference number
SM volume 115/136g
Purpose
Drawing 7 (bottom centre right): Column base from a property belonging to Cardinal Raffaele Riario
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:2
Inscribed
apud. uineam/ car[dinalis]. S. Georgij. (‘Near the vineyard 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
This base of very unusual design – with a torus at the top followed by a scotia, an astragal, another scotia and two astragals at the bottom – bears a family resemblance to the one to its left and may have also been regarded as Ionic and as similar to Vitruvius’s Ionic base (see Drawing 6). It was seen in a ‘vineyard’ (vigna) belonging, as the caption indicates, to the patron of the Palazzo della Cancelleria, but no other drawings of it are known.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46877
Census, ID 46877
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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