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Drawing 4 (second row, centre): Helmet with horns and surmounting dragon
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161ad
Purpose
Drawing 4 (second row, centre): Helmet with horns and surmounting dragon
Aspect
View of side
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The burgonet, schematically drawn here (c.1515), has a peak seemingly conceived as an animal’s face (cf. Fol. 97 and flap recto Drawing 6), although with horns emerging perversely from its eye sockets. The flange at the back has a pronounced scroll at the bottom and a further horn seen emerging from the ear. The skull is embellished with a small acanthus leaf just above the peak and, at the top, a comb in the form of a dragon, rather like on the helmet in Andrea del Verrocchio’s relief of Alexander the Great in Washington’s National Gallery (Butterfield 1998, pp. 230–31).
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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