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In Sti Quattro (‘In Santi Quattro [Coronati]’); 24 [in graphite]

• 1625/35
  Date range: 1625/35

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown and brown wash over ?graphite

Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)

This seventeenth-century addition to the sheet depicts, as the caption indicates, a console seen at Santi Quattro Coronati, that has double volutes and lavish acanthus decoration. Unknown to Ashby, it still survives and is found near the buttress on the church’s northern side (Campbell 2004; Krautheimer 1937–77, 4, p. 13). Although not a keystone, the console is comparable in form to the specimens shown above it and was included to fill the space left below them. A very similar drawing dating from the mid- sixteenth century is found in a compilation now in Naples (Campbell 2004); although the perspective is adjusted just a little, and all the decoration on the outer border is shown. The Naples drawing appears on the same sheet as one of an entablature, which (as Campbell noted) is shown in another Coner drawing (Fol. 61r/Ashby 103), and the likelihood is that the two console drawings, although not directly related, depend on the same now-lost source. The Coner drawing, like many other seventeenth-century additions to the codex, is numbered in graphite.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: Naples, BNN, Ms XII D 74, fol. 11r (Lanzarini 2020, p. 505)

Ashby 1904, p. 71
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 640 and 642
Census, ID 46913

Drawing

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