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Reference number
SM volume 115/144a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): 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 single vertical stylus line on axis of symmetry
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This heraldic cartouche does not bear the insignia of any family and is either an invention or was copied from a model book. It is generally of a type with multiple curling flanges that was beginning to become popular in the early sixteenth century (see Cat. Fol. 84v/Ashby 141 Drawing 2). A similarly complex cartouche was illustrated by Sebastiano Serlio in Book Four of his treatise first published in 1537. The drawing belongs to the second phase in the codex’s production, as indicated by such features as the hatching outside the cartouche’s borders, which is seen only in drawings from this time (cf. Fol 87r/Ashby 145 Drawing 1).
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: Serlio 1619, 4, fol. 200r
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: Serlio 1619, 4, fol. 200r
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 70
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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