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  • image SM volume 115/149f

Reference number

SM volume 115/149f

Purpose

Drawing 6 (middle column, top): Ornamental head of a halberd

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

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

The halberd, decorative rather than practical, is of modern invention and has an axe blade ornamented with circles, a pick resembling the tail of a sea monster, and a pike head suggestive of a bird’s head. The drawing’s style is indicative of 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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