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  • image SM volume 115/162b

Reference number

SM volume 115/162b

Purpose

Drawing 2 (top right): Two standing figures

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 brown chalk

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

Showing a pair of standing male nudes both holding a central staff, this drawing (of c.1515), perhaps a modern invention, is distinct from the one to its left, having a different base line, and being separated from it by curious angular bracketing feature.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 74
Ashby 1913, p. 210
Census, ID 47226

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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