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  • image SM volume 115/141b

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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