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  • image SM volume 115/146e

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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