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Reference number

SM volume 115/95d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (centre of sheet): Unidentified cornice

Aspect

Perspectival elevation of a corner

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over black chalk

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

The cornice is a very simple one, with a cyma reversa moulding beneath modillions, and then a corona and a cyma recta moulding at the top. Although without any other distinguishing features, its modillions indicate that it probably belongs to a Corinthian order. The corner view of it seen from below accords with the representational format adopted for depictions of several other entablatures seen in the codex. The freehand execution is typical of many drawings there that were executed after 1514.

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 48
Census, ID 45645

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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