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Drawing 3 (third row): Soffit with complex plaited ribbon from Capua
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Reference number
SM volume 115/157c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (third row): Soffit with complex plaited ribbon from Capua
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 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)
Notes
The soffit depicted in this seventeenth-century drawing is decorated with interwoven and plaited ribbon, bordered on one side by a framed band of stunted fluting. The soffit and accompanying border are paralleled in a mid- sixteenth-century drawing now in Naples, while the soffit – minus the border – is also seen in a drawing in Saint Petersburg. Both the Naples and the Saint Petersburg depictions give the location as Capua (‘Santa Maria di Capua’). Platted ribbon decoration of this kind is seen, as Campbell noted, on the underside of the architrave of the Hadrianeum, but this latter example has a different border.
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 72r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, pp. 131–32); [Anon.] Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Ms. XII.D.74, 8r (Lanzarini 2020, p. 493)
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 72r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, pp. 131–32); [Anon.] Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Ms. XII.D.74, 8r (Lanzarini 2020, p. 493)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
Census, ID 55869
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
Census, ID 55869
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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