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Drawing 2 (top right): Capital from San Giovanni in Laterano
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Reference number
SM volume 115/151b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (top right): Capital from San Giovanni in Laterano
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Inscribed
.ad. S. ioan[n]e inlaterano (‘In San Giovanni in Laterano’)
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This very unusual capital has four sprigs of leaves at the centre of each face, sparsely covering the calathus. Different too is the leaf type which differs considerably from the more normal acanthus. The echinus is adorned with palmette or anthemion decoration. The capital is no longer to be seen in the church although, as Ashby noted, one of very similar design was later recorded by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in his Della magnificenza ed architettura de'Romani, who gives the location as the vigna of Jacopo Ingamo near the Circus Maximus (Piranesi 1761, pl. 16). The drawing’s format and style suggest that it was executed around 1515.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 72
Census, ID 47052
Census, ID 47052
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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