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