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Drawing 3 (bottom left): Figured capital with male nudes from San Giovanni in Laterano
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Reference number
SM volume 115/151c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (bottom left): Figured capital with male nudes from San Giovanni in Laterano
Aspect
Perspectival view from left
Scale
Not known
Inscribed
A San Gio: Laterano (‘At San Giovanni in Laterano’); 25 [in graphite]
Signed and dated
- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over ?graphite
Hand
Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)
Notes
The capital in this drawing, added in the seventeenth century to fill a convenient gap and numbered like other later additions in graphite, no longer survives, but, like one of those above (Drawing 2), it came from St John Lateran. Its front face features a pair of male nudes while the one on the side that is visible includes an eagle. The shape of the shaft is curious, being seemingly round at the front but flat at the sides, perhaps indicating the draughtman’s inexperience, also seen among other seventeenth-century additions to the codex, in depicting architectural subjects. The drawing’s format which includes the capital’s left side, is generally similar to that of other seventeenth-century depictions of capitals in the codex, and suggests a derivation from an earlier period.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 72
Census, ID 47053
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 641 and 643
Census, ID 47053
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 641 and 643
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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