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  • image SM volume 115/161b

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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