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  • image SM volume 115/138a

Reference number

SM volume 115/138a

Purpose

Drawing 1 (top row, left): Unidentified Corinthian capital

Aspect

Perspectival view

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over black chalk with single vertical stylus line at centre

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

This Corinthian capital has three acanthus leaves at the bottom with two elongated leaves rising at the sides to form corner volutes, the space between them adorned with four tendrils culminating in florets. No other drawing of this capital is known. In its manner of presentation, the drawing has much in common with certain depictions, as Ashby noted, by Giuliano da Sangallo in his Codex Barberini, that are probably considerably earlier in date. Its frontal format and less precise draughtsmanship also suggest that it was executed slightly later (c.1515) than other drawings in the codex.


OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Rome, BAV, Barb. lat. 4424 (Codex Barberini), fols 10v–11r (Hülsen 1910, pp. 19–21; Borsi 1985, pp. 87–91)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46976

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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