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Reference number
SM volume 115/146g
Purpose
Drawing 7 (bottom centre): Lower components perhaps of an item of furniture
Aspect
Perspectival view of corner
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 and a single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The elaborate support shown here consists of a low square base, which gradually rises to a pair of drum-like elements. The base is ornamented with a sphinx at one corner but is otherwise left blank, while the ascending zone immediately above it is decorated at the corners with rams’ heads alternating with bucrania (one shown), the latter with suspended garlands. Ashby considered the support to be a modern invention, but it is very specific in design and could belong to an ancient piece of furniture, possibly a candelabrum. The drawing is stylistically consistent with many others dating for the second phase of the codex’s 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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