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Drawing 6 (upper half, bottom right): Decorative band with an acanthus sprig and a palmette
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Reference number
SM volume 115/156f
Purpose
Drawing 6 (upper half, bottom right): Decorative band with an acanthus sprig and 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
The decorative band drawn around 1515 has a palmette linked to bud-like motifs and then to another foliate form on the left. Ashby related it to the upper-storey frieze of the Basilica Ulpia, and it certainly resembles a surviving fragment from this building (Packer 1997, 1, pp. 120–21 and 2, pl. 91.4). A similar design appears in an engraving in Oxford, although the motifs are linked differently.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Larger Talman Album, fol. 62r
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Larger Talman Album, fol. 62r
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Ashby 1913, p. 210
Census, ID 47162
Ashby 1913, p. 210
Census, ID 47162
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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