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Drawing 3 (upper right): Composite capital with five faces once in Old St Peter’s
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Reference number
SM volume 115/139c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (upper right): Composite capital with five faces once in Old St Peter’s
Aspect
Perspectival view of two sides
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The capital is also depicted in the plan positioned below this drawing (Drawing 4), and Ashby eventually came to the opinion (1914) that it was from the rotunda dedicated to Santa Maria della Febbre, which was attached to the southern side of Old St Peter’s and served as its sacristy, this location indicated by the plan and view of a similar Composite capital from Santa Maria della Febbre from the mid- sixteenth century in Saint Petersburg. The later plan, admittedly, is based on a regular pentagon rather than one with two more-closely-spaced corners, but this may be the result of wishing to make the capital appear rather less odd. The positioning of the Coner drawings on the page, together with their more tentative style and less detailed execution in comparison with the others to their left suggests that they were a final addition in the second phase of the codex’s production.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 97r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, p. 149)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 97r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, p. 149)
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 68–69
Ashby 1913, p. 209
Census, ID 47011
Ashby 1913, p. 209
Census, ID 47011
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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