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Reference number
SM volume 115/144c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (bottom left): Unidentified Composite capital
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 Composite capital was thought by Ashby to be from either the Arch of Titus or Arch of Septimius Severus, but neither suggestion is convincing. It differs from the Arch of Titus capitals in lacking the three pods on the abacus between the volutes, in showing the flower and tendril at the top of the calathus differently, and in showing more of the axial acanthus leaf at the bottom (cf. Desgodetz 1682, p. 185); and it differs from the Arch of Severus capitals in these same ways and others (cf. Desgodetz 1682, p. 207). The capital has yet to be identified.
The drawing is executed in a much lighter ink and a less precise manner than the others of capitals on this page. Executed during the codex’s second phase of production, it was presumably added to the sheet at a very late stage.
The drawing is executed in a much lighter ink and a less precise manner than the others of capitals on this page. Executed during the codex’s second phase of production, it was presumably added to the sheet at a very late stage.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 70
Census, ID 46914
Census, ID 46914
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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