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  • image SM volume 115/146h

Reference number

SM volume 115/146h

Purpose

Drawing 8 (bottom right): Richly ornamented candelabrum base

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

Seemingly a base for a candelabrum, this object has a bottom zone decorated with sphinxes, a level above decorated with ram’s heads and an eagle supporting a male nude positioned, at an even higher level, between zoomorphic volutes, which then carry a columnar superstructure. Ashby thought the design was imaginary which may be correct as there are no obvious ancient parallels for such a composition. The drawing is in the same style as others produced during the codex’s second phase of production.

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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