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Drawing 5 (second row, right): Ornamental feature decorated with a shell and snakes
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Reference number
SM volume 115/146e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (second row, right): Ornamental feature decorated with a shell and snakes
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 black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The object drawn here may not be a modern invention, as Ashby supposed, but could be a fragment of the rim of an actual vase or urn, and it is ornamented with a shell flanked by a pair of snakes. The drawing is consistent in style with most of the others on this page and belongs to the codex’s second phase of execution.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 71
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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