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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

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 73
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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