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Drawing 2 (second row): Soffit with a running wave, acanthus and buds
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Reference number
SM volume 115/157b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (second row): Soffit with a running wave, acanthus and buds
Aspect
Ornamental composition
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite
Hand
Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)
Notes
The decorative band in this seventeenth-century drawing is embellished with a wave motif which has acanthus below the peaks and buds above the troughs. Although the drawing is positioned on the page very close to one above it, the two are of different subjects (see Drawing 1). The same decorative band is shown in a mid- sixteenth-century drawing in Saint Petersburg.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 72r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, pp. 131–32)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 72r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, pp. 131–32)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
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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