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Drawing 2 (top right): Column base once in Santa Maria in Campitello
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Reference number
SM volume 115/137b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top right): Column base once in Santa Maria in Campitello
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:3
Inscribed
ad. S. m[ariam]. in./ canpitello. (‘At Santa Maria in Campitello’); [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
With its two toruses, two scotias and a single astragal at the centre, this base is of the same design as the one shown to its left, being like those of the internal upper storey of the Pantheon although a little smaller. Otherwise unrecorded, it was seen, as the caption establishes, in Santa Maria in Campitelli, a church situated a little to the north of the Theatre of Marcellus that was eventually rebuilt to a design by Carlo Rainaldi in 1659–67 (Wittkower 1937).
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46880
Census, ID 46880
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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