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Reference number
SM volume 115/141b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top right): Cartouche
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This cartouche for a family’s coat of arms, either an invention or copied from a model book, is of a design that was becoming increasingly popular, with two scrolling flanges at the top and a third at the bottom. A similar cartouche associated with Pope Leo X and dating from c.1515 is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Pope-Hennessy 1964, 2, p. 410). Faintly visible in the black chalk underdrawing is an inset oval field, presumably for the coat of arms itself, which is divided horizontally with a circle positioned in the lower half.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 69
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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