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  • image SM volume 115/149d

Reference number

SM volume 115/149d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (left column, lower centre): Ornamental feature

Aspect

Part of an ornamental composition

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

A shell-like feature with extended scrolls at both sides, the design was perhaps an ornament for a vase or piece of small-scale furniture. The drawing, although positioned close to the one beneath, is unrelated to it. Its style suggests a date of c.1515.

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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