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Drawing 2 (top row, centre): Corinthian-type capital with sea monsters seen possibly at Tivoli
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Reference number
SM volume 115/138b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top row, centre): Corinthian-type capital with sea monsters seen possibly at Tivoli
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-type capital has acanthus at the bottom and intertwined sea monsters above, with a palmette or anthemion at the centre of the abacus. The volutes take the form of dragon-like monsters with tails interlocking at the centre of the calathus. No other drawings of it have been identified, but it very closely resembles an extant example at Tivoli on Via Domenico Giuliani (Von Mercklin 1962, p. 255, fig. 1186), and this, as in the Coner drawing, is accompanied by a part of a column shaft that is broken.
The drawing differs from many others in the codex in the hesitant way it shows the section through the shaft, and this together with the less precise, tentative quality of the draughtsmanship in general suggests that it was produced at a later moment, as was the case with the other drawings on the sheet.
The drawing differs from many others in the codex in the hesitant way it shows the section through the shaft, and this together with the less precise, tentative quality of the draughtsmanship in general suggests that it was produced at a later moment, as was the case with the other drawings on the sheet.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46977
Census, ID 46977
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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