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Drawing 5 (bottom left): Unidentified Corinthian capital with flowering tendrils
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Reference number
SM volume 115/139e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (bottom left): Unidentified Corinthian capital with flowering tendrils
Aspect
Perspectival view of half
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
This elegant Corinthian capital, which is probably ancient but otherwise unrecorded, has delicate flowering tendrils at the sides but no corresponding ones in the middle where there is, instead, a palmette or anthemion. It is depicted in a very similar style and the same format, and in the same-coloured ink, as the two capitals above which all show its right half, suggesting that all three were based on a set of drawings by an earlier draughtsman. The hatching beyond the edge of the design (to the right of the abacus and volute), also seen in Drawing 2, serves to throw these particular features into relief, a convention not seen in the rather earlier drawings found in the codex.
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 68–69
Census, ID 47013
Census, ID 47013
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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