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Reference number

SM volume 115/137f

Purpose

Drawing 6 (bottom right): Lower moulding from the Arch of Titus’s pedestal

Aspect

Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:4

Inscribed

arci. titi. et. uespasiani. (‘Of the Arch of Titus and Vespasian’); [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 moulding, with its two toruses, two cymas, scotia and astragal, belongs to the pedestals supporting the half-columns of the Arch of Titus, the monument specified in the caption. As Ashby noted, the bottom of the pedestal had been unearthed by this time, and its base was frequently recorded. Earlier drawings of it were produced by Francesco di Giorgio, Il Cronaca and Giuliano da Sangallo, who, in the Codex Barberini, depicted the full height of the lower supporting plinth which, in the Coner depiction, is truncated. These earlier drawings, and those made subsequently by Baldassare Peruzzi and Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo, all represent the base in simple elevation. Two illustrations of it in Book Four of Sebastiano Serlio’s treatise first published in 1537, however, incorporate a section but show the base as a perspectival view of a corner. The Coner drawing was copied by Michelangelo but as a reversed depiction of the profile.

RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 92–93)

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Francesco di Giorgio] Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Codex Saluzziano 148, addendum, fol. 99v (Martini 1967, p. 289); [Il Cronaca] Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. KdZ 5713r (Günther 1988, p. 332 and pl. 9a); [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fol. 63r (Hülsen 1910, pp. 66–67); [Baldassare Peruzzi] Florence, GDSU, 483 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 51; Wurm 1984, pl. 450); [Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo] Florence, GDSU, 1650 A (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 103; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 196); Serlio 1619, 4, fol. 171v and 183v

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 35r/Ashby 56; Fol. 56r/Ashby 95; Fol. 57r/Ashby 97; Fol. 80r/Ashby 134; Fol. 89r/Ashby 147

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 68
Günther 1988, p. 338
Census, ID 49021

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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