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Drawing 1 (top left): Unidentified Ionic capital
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Reference number
SM volume 115/140a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): Unidentified Ionic capital
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over traces of black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
With its channelled neck, this Ionic capital is quite like other examples shown on Folio 89r/Ashby 148, apart from it having scrolls that emerge from the top of the echinus rather than joining each other across its top and having two ornamented mouldings at the neck’s bottom. It is similar to one now in Rome’s Museo Nazionale (Museo Nazionale Romano 1979–91, 1,2, pp. 113–14), except that this ancient specimen has scrolls that join each other, and ornament that is slightly different. The drawing is of two halves that meet at a black chalk line, the left one in heavier ink and more shaded and completely finished, and the right one more cursory in execution, with the scroll only roughly sketched in. In style and format, it is otherwise consistent with other drawings dating from the slightly later phase of the codex’s completion. It was copied in simplified form by Michelangelo.
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 92–93)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB, 1Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 92–93)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 69
Census, ID 47017
Census, ID 47017
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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