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Drawing 2 (left half, top right): male hybrid creature with wings
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (left half, top right): male hybrid creature with wings
Aspect
Part of an 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
Less-finished than the two others on this page, the drawing is of a bearded, male hybrid creature with wings and a snake-like tail. Like the neighbouring one, it is probably a modern invention and belongs to the second phase in the codex’s production. The tail runs right into the sheet’s fold, which suggests that it was executed – like the others from this time – before the compilation’s original binding took place.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
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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