Drawing 4 (bottom right): Corinthian-type capital from San Paolo fuori le Mura

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/151

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Reference number

SM volume 115/151d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (bottom right): Corinthian-type capital from San Paolo fuori le Mura

Aspect

Perspectival view

Scale

Not known

Inscribed

.a. S. paulo (‘At San Paolo’)

Signed and dated

c.1515
Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

The capital has a ring of tall leaves at the bottom, intertwining tendrils above and sprouting acanthus of inward curvature at the corners, and it was seen, as the caption attests, in San Paulo fuori le Mura. No trace of it can be seen there today, but a very similar example, with intertwining tendrils and sprouting foliage at the corners, is in the Schloss Glienicke near Berlin (Gans 1992, pp. 153–54). A mid- sixteenth-century drawing in Saint Petersburg shows half the capital but is otherwise very similar in both detailing and format. The format and style of the Coner drawing indicate a date of c.1515.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 103v (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, p. 154)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 72
Census, ID 47054

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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