`Codex Coner’: Volume of architectural and decorative drawings formerly attributed to Andreas Coner and now considered to be by two hands, called the `Codex Coner’, early 16th-C & 17th-C draughtsmen, 165 pp. The 16th-C drawings originally formed two sketchbooks, remounted in an Italian parchment binding of the 18th C, the spine of which is insc: Architect/Civilis/Andrea/Coneri/Antiqua/Monume/Rome (460 x 330). The drawings were in Cassiano dal Pozzo's paper museum and the drawings in the later hand can be attributed to this period. The paper inlays, green pigmentation on the edges of the folios as well as the vellum bindings are characteristic of Dal Pozzo's collection. In 1762 James Adam, on behalf of George III, negotiated the sale of the prints and drawings from Cardinal Albani's Library which contained Dal Pozzo's collection, and the collection went to the Royal Library, Windsor. This volume remained in the Adam collection and was acquired by Soane at the Adam Sale in May 1818. The following catalogue is an abbreviated text taken from T. Ashby, `Sixteenth-century Drawings of Roman Buildings attributed to Andreas Coner’ in Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. II, 1904 (where all the drawings are reproduced). After they were re-mounted the drawings were renumbered individually; it is these numbers which were adopted by Ashby for his catalogue and which have been followed in this concise catalogue. For the authorship of the Codex Coner see Tilmann Buddensieg, `Bernardo della Volpaia und Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo: Der Autor des Codex Coner und seine Stellung im Sangallos-Kries’, in Romisches Jahrbuch fiir Kunstgeschichte, 15 (1975): pp 89 ff

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`Codex Coner’: Volume of architectural and decorative drawings formerly attributed to Andreas Coner and now considered to be by two hands, called the `Codex Coner’, early 16th-C & 17th-C draughtsmen, 165 pp. The 16th-C drawings originally formed two sketchbooks, remounted in an Italian parchment binding of the 18th C, the spine of which is insc: Architect/Civilis/Andrea/Coneri/Antiqua/Monume/Rome (460 x 330). The drawings were in Cassiano dal Pozzo's paper museum and the drawings in the later hand can be attributed to this period. The paper inlays, green pigmentation on the edges of the folios as well as the vellum bindings are characteristic of Dal Pozzo's collection. In 1762 James Adam, on behalf of George III, negotiated the sale of the prints and drawings from Cardinal Albani's Library which contained Dal Pozzo's collection, and the collection went to the Royal Library, Windsor. This volume remained in the Adam collection and was acquired by Soane at the Adam Sale in May 1818. The following catalogue is an abbreviated text taken from T. Ashby, `Sixteenth-century Drawings of Roman Buildings attributed to Andreas Coner’ in Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. II, 1904 (where all the drawings are reproduced). After they were re-mounted the drawings were renumbered individually; it is these numbers which were adopted by Ashby for his catalogue and which have been followed in this concise catalogue. For the authorship of the Codex Coner see Tilmann Buddensieg, `Bernardo della Volpaia und Giovanni Francesco da Sangallo: Der Autor des Codex Coner und seine Stellung im Sangallos-Kries’, in Romisches Jahrbuch fiir Kunstgeschichte, 15 (1975): pp 89 ff

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spine insc: Architec/Civilis/Andrea/Coneri/Antiqua/Monume/Rome

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The 16th-C drawings originally formed two sketchbooks, remounted in an Italian parchment binding of the 18th C (460 x 330)

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For a full catalogue entry see Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, London 1998

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Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master, The British Museum, London, 23 March 2006 - 25 June 2006

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