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Drawing 5 (bottom centre): Pilaster base seen near the Theatre of Marcellus
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Reference number
SM volume 115/137e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (bottom centre): Pilaster base seen near the Theatre of Marcellus
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:6
Inscribed
apud. savellos. (‘At [the palace of] the Savelli’); [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
Seen near the Theatre of Marcellus (the Savelli palace mentioned in the caption), this base moulding has a torus, a scotia, a cyma reversa and three astragals: one above the cyma and two between the cyma and the scotia. That it belongs to a pilaster rather than a column or half-column, is indicated by the receding edges, shown perspectivally, of the torus and the fillet above it, which are straight rather than curving. The drawing was copied by Michelangelo although the profile was reversed.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 92–93)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 92–93)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46888
Census, ID 46888
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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