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  • image SM volume 115/138d

Reference number

SM volume 115/138d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (second row, left): Unidentified Corinthian-type 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-type capital is composed in two tiers, with acanthus below and schematic scrolls rising at the sides and with a three-petal floret at the centre of the abacus. It is not recorded in any other known drawing. The drawing is similar in character to others on this sheet (see Cat. Drawing 1), and its execution again dates from a slightly later time.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46985

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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