{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0725.htm","path":"aor/dv/0725.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0725.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe project of the Trivulzio monument.[2] Cost of the making and materials for the horse [5].\nA courser, as large as life, with the rider requires for the cost of the metal, duc. 500.\nAnd for cost of the iron work which is inside the model, and charcoal, and wood, and the pit to cast it in, and for binding the mould, and including the furnace where it is to be cast ... duc. 200.\nTo make the model in clay and then in wax......... duc. 432.\nTo the labourers for polishing it when it is cast. ....... duc. 450.\nin all. . duc. 1582.\n[12] Cost of the marble of the monument [14].\nCost of the marble according to the drawing. The piece of marble under the horse which is 4 braccia long, 2 braccia and 2 inches wide and 9 inches thick 58 hundredweight, at 4 Lire and 10 Soldi per hundredweight.. duc. 58.\nAnd for 13 braccia and 6 inches of cornice, 7 in. wide and 4 in. thick, 24 hundredweight....... duc. 24.\nAnd for the frieze and architrave, which is 4 br. and 6 in. long, 2 br. wide and 6 in. thick, 29 hundredweight., duc. 20.\nAnd for the capitals made of metal, which are 8, 5 inches in. square and 2 in. thick, at the price of 15 ducats each, will come to...... duc. 122.\nAnd for 8 columns of 2 br. 7 in., 4 1/2 in. thick, 20 hundredweight duc. 20.\nAnd for 8 bases which are 5 1/2 in. square and 2 in. high 5 hund'.. duc. 5.\nAnd for the slab of the tombstone 4 br. io in. long, 2 br. 4 1/2 in. wide 36 hundredweight....... duc. 36.\nAnd for 8 pedestal feet each 8 br. long and 6 1/2 in. wide and 6 1/2 in. thick, 20 hundredweight come to... duc. 20.\nAnd for the cornice below which is 4 br. and 10 in. long, and 2 br. and 5 in. wide, and 4 in. thick, 32 hund'.. duc. 32.\nAnd for the stone of which the figure of the deceased is to be made which is 3 br. and 8 in. long, and 1 br. and 6 in. wide, and 9 in. thick, 30 hund'.. duc. 30.\nAnd for the stone on which the figure lies which is 3 br. and 4 in. long and 1 br. and 2 in., wide and 4 1/2 in. thick duc. 16.\nAnd for the squares of marble placed between the pedestals which are 8 and are 9 br. long and 9 in. wide, and 3 in. thick, 8 hundredweight . . . duc. 8. in all. . duc. 389.\n[33]Cost of the work in marble[35].\nRound the base on which the horse stands there are 8 figures at 25 ducats each ............ duc. 200.\nAnd on the same base there are 8 festoons with some other ornaments, and of these there are 4 at the price of 15 ducats each, and 4 at the price of 8 ducats each ....... duc. 92.\nAnd for squaring the stones duc. 6.\nAgain, for the large cornice which goes below the base on which the horse stands, which is 13 br. and 6 in., at 2 due. per br. ...... duc. 27.\nAnd for 12 br. of frieze at 5 due. per br. ........... duc. 60.\nAnd for 12 br. of architrave at 1 1/2 duc. per br. ....... duc. 18.\nAnd for 3 rosettes which will be the soffit of the monument, at 20 ducats each .......... duc. 60.\nAnd for 8 fluted columns at 8 ducats each ......... duc. 64.\nAnd for 8 bases at 1 ducat each, duc. 8.\nAnd for 8 pedestals, of which 4 are at 10 duc. each, which go above the angles; and 4 at 6 duc. each .. duc. 64.\nAnd for squaring and carving the moulding of the pedestals at 2 duc. each, and there are 8 .... duc. 16.\nAnd for 6 square blocks with figures and trophies, at 25 duc. each .. duc. 150.\nAnd for carving the moulding of the stone under the figure of the deceased .......... duc. 40.\nFor the statue of the deceased, to do it well .......... duc. 100.\nFor 6 harpies with candelabra, at 25 ducats each ......... duc. 150.\nFor squaring the stone on which the statue lies, and carving the moulding ............ duc. 20.\nin all .. duc. 1075.\nThe sum total of every thing added together amount to ...... duc. 3046.\n15:346 : In the original, lines 2-5, 12-14, 33-35, are written on the margin. This passage has been recently published by G. Govi in Vol. V, Ser. 3a, of Transunti, Reale Accademia dei Linea, sed. del 5 Giugno, 1881, with the following introductory note: \"Desidero intanto che siano stampati questi pochi frammenti perche so che sono stati trascritti ultimamente, e verranno messi in luce tra poco fuori d'Italia. Li ripubblichi pure chi vuole, ma si sappia almeno che anche tra noi si conoscevano, e s'eran raccolti da anni per comporne, quando che fosse, una edizione ordinata degli scritti di Leonardo.\"\nThe learned editor has left out line 22 and has written 3 pie for 8 piedi in line 25. There are other deviations of less importance from the original.","title":"Vol. II: XI. The Notes on Sculpture: 725.","type":"page"}