Drawing 4 (bottom left): Cornice once in Santa Prassede

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)
  - SM volume 115/83

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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)

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 44
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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