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Drawing 9 (middle column, bottom): Table with a central column
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Reference number
SM volume 115/149i
Purpose
Drawing 9 (middle column, bottom): Table with a central column
Aspect
Perspectival view of corner
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
The table has its legs terminating in claw feet that rest on a plinth with concave sides, and between the legs is a raised platform that supports a central column, which passes through the table but is not shown much beyond. A depiction of a very similar table with a central column rising through it appears in the stucco decorations of the ancient Roman villa found in the grounds of the Villa Farnesina in 1878–79 during the construction of the Lungotevere embankment, and this testifies to the existence of such tables in antiquity and implies that they were known about in the Renaissance. Interestingly too, the stucco depiction shows the central column topped with a vase, while the Coner drawing has the vase in the previous drawing placed immediately above it and on axis with it, which could suggest that the table’s association with vases was understood by the Coner draughtsman. 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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