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Drawing 4 (bottom left): Foliate candelabrum and scroll with two storks
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Reference number
SM volume 115/162d
Purpose
Drawing 4 (bottom left): Foliate candelabrum and scroll with two storks
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
This decorative ensemble, drawn c.1515, consists of a foliate candelabrum with a stork halfway up, which rises from a foliate scroll with a dolphin protome and with a second stalk above it. Ashby presumed that it was a record – despite its lack of overall symmetry – of some ancient painted decoration, proposing that it could have been based on an example from the Golden House of Nero, but there is no evidence to support such a conclusion. Immediately above the second stork is a faint drawing in brown chalk of the same stork, presumably a trial attempt executed before the finished version.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 74
Census, ID 47227
Census, ID 47227
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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