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Drawing 4 (centre of sheet): Unidentified cornice
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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
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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