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  • image SM volume 115/156d

Reference number

SM volume 115/156d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (second row, right): Decorative foliate band with a palmette

Aspect

Ornamental composition

Scale

Not known

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

This band of decoration, from around 1515, has an inverted palmette joined by foliate swirls to a pair of acanthus sprigs. No other drawings of this design are known.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 73
Census, ID 47119

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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