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Drawing 2 (left): Entablature once near the Torre delle Milizie
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Reference number
SM volume 115/89b
Purpose
Drawing 2 (left): Entablature once near the Torre delle Milizie
Aspect
Cross section and axonometric raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale 1:18
Inscribed
Apud. arcem. Militu[m] (‘Near the soldiers’ fortress [i.e. Torre delle Milizie]’); [measurements]
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
Depicting an unidentified entablature once seen in the vicinity of the Torre delle Milizie behind Trajan’s Market, the drawing is unfinished and lacks the corona and the cyma above it, although the cyma’s top edge is indicated by a horizontal line. The entablature is similar in design to the one next to it, which may explain why it was included on the same sheet, and it also resembles the one on the previous page from the Spoglia Christi, although its size was a little smaller. Michelangelo copied the profile of an architrave identical to the one depicted here, next to the one seen in the neighbouring drawing (Drawing 1).
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo], London, BM, 1859-6-25-560/2r (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 45; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 98–99)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo], London, BM, 1859-6-25-560/2r (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 45; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 98–99)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 46
Census, ID 46974
Census, ID 46974
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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