Drawing 4 (left column, bottom): Ionic capital seen possibly in Santi Apostoli

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/148

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Reference number

SM volume 115/148d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (left column, bottom): Ionic capital seen possibly in Santi Apostoli

Aspect

Perspectival view of side, with measurement

Scale

To an approximate scale of 1:11

Inscribed

[Measurement]

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

This drawing is a side view of the capital shown above it. The band shown at the centre of the side scroll framed with rope-like edging is not seen in other drawings but is matched in surviving ancient examples of this capital type (see Cat. Drawing 3).

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 71
Census, ID 47048

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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