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  • image SM volume 115/161c

Reference number

SM volume 115/161c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (left half, bottom): Putto with hybrid creature

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

This drawing, mostly highly-finished, features a putto with foliate hair holding a plant pushing away a hybrid creature which has a goat-like head and horns, lion’s front paws and a spiralling snake-like tail terminating in leaves. Like the others on this page, it is probably a modern invention dating from c.1515, but unlike them it straddles the sheet’s central fold, suggesting, as with the previous drawing, that it was produced before the codex’s original binding took place. The right-hand portion of the drawing is left unfinished. A similar horned creature with a snake-like tail appears in a drawing by Giuliano da Sangallo in his Taccuino Senese.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Giuliano da Sangallo] Siena, BCS, Ms. S.IV.8 (Taccuino Senese), fol. 41r (Borsi 1985, pp. 302–10)

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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