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  • image SM volume 115/149j

Reference number

SM volume 115/149j

Purpose

Drawing 10 (right column, top): Corner of an 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

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

The depicted feature belongs to some sort of base, with a double plinth and then a ram’s head at the corner, above which is a curving band of guilloche decoration beneath a double scroll. It rather resembles the lowermost elements of an ancient candelabrum. The drawing’s style implies 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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