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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)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 73
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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