Not known

• c.1515
  Datable to c.1515

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk, with single vertical stylus line at centre

Bernardo della Volpaia

The side view is of the same capital depicted above it (Drawing 9), and similar side views were produced, previously and in a probably related drawing, by the anonymous draughtsman of the Codex Strozzi, and, afterwards, by Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo. The Codex Strozzi side view shows the capital perspectivally like the Coner drawing, but it depicts the volute and neck without indicating the projection of the echinus, which in the Coner drawing is carefully recorded. The convention of placing the side view of a capital directly beneath a drawing of its front face is seen elsewhere in the codex (e.g. Fol. 89r/Ashby 148). Like the one above it and the others on this page, the drawing was executed a little later than most others in the codex, as is suggested by the differences in drawing convention. It was copied by Michelangelo, although with simplified ornamentation.

RELATED IMAGES: Anon.] Florence, GDSU, Codex Strozzi, 1601 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 27); [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Av: right side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 90–91)

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo] Florence, GDSU, 1702 Av (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 103; Frommel–Schelbert 2022, 1, p. 203)

Ashby 1904, p. 68
Census, ID 46991

Drawing

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