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Drawing 4 (bottom left): Cornice once in Santa Prassede
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Reference number
SM volume 115/83d
Purpose
Drawing 4 (bottom left): Cornice once in Santa Prassede
Aspect
Cross section and raking view of front, with measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:7
Inscribed
in. s. praxede. (‘In Santa Prassede’)
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
Identified by the caption as being at Santa Prassede, this cornice can now no longer be found there. It has an upper cyma decorated with vertically arranged leaves, rosettes under the soffit of the corona set between mutules, and rows of egg-and-dart and then dentils beneath. Given the mutules, it perhaps belonged to a Doric order. The drawing differs from the others on the sheet in following the format of a combined cross section and view, and it perhaps dates from after the others, to fill a convenient space at the sheet’s bottom. It was copied by Michelangelo
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB 4Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 124–25)
RELATED IMAGES: [Michelangelo] Florence, CB 4Ar: left side (De Tolnay 1975–80, 4, p. 49; Agosti–Farinella 1987, pp. 124–25)
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 44
Census, ID 45104
Census, ID 45104
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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