Folio 91 verso (Ashby 152): Corinthian-type capital seen in San Lorenzo 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)

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Reference number

SM volume 115/152

Purpose

Folio 91 verso (Ashby 152): Corinthian-type capital seen in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura

Aspect

Perspectival view

Scale

Not known

Inscribed

[Drawing] Nella Chiesa di S. Lorenzo fuor delle mura. (‘In the church of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura’); 26 [in graphite]
[Mount] 152 [x2]

Signed and dated

1625/35
Date range: 1625/35

Medium and dimensions

[Drawing] Pen and brown ink and grey-brown and brown wash; on laid paper (231x164mm), rounded corners at left, inlaid
[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart; window (223x157mm)

Hand

Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)

Watermark

See recto

Notes

This Corinthian-type capital, with two draped female figures holding a central trophy topped by a winged head. and rams’ horns replacing the usual corner tendrils, was seen, according to the caption, in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. None of this precise design is to be found there today, although a similar pair there has draped figures holding a trophy but with no winged heads or rams’ horns (Campbell). A seventeenth century addition to the codex, the drawing is like many others in it from this time in being numbered in graphite.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 72
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 644 and 646
Census, ID 58176

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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