Drawing 4 (bottom left): Column base seen in the Lateran Baptistery

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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 115/137

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Reference number

SM volume 115/137d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (bottom left): Column base seen in the Lateran Baptistery

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:2

Inscribed

.in. S. ioan[n]e/ infonte. (‘In San Giovanni in Fonte’); [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

The ‘San Giovanni in Fonte’ in the caption is the Lateran Baptistery, but no other records of this unusual, now-lost base, which has two toruses, a cyma reversa and a scotia, are known.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census ID #46887

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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