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drawing, sketch-book
Description
English: Aspertini sketch-book (so-called London I): 11th opening


left (1898,1123.3(11) verso) and right-hand page (1898,1123.3(12) recto) with a frieze of Romans fighting barbarians with a wounded, or dead, nude combatant being carried by another barbarian c. 1535


Pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on vellum
Date between 1532 and 1535
date QS:P571,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 184 millimetres (each page)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1898,1123.3.11
Notes

The scene is from a roman relief (Bober-Rubinstein 1986, no. 154, p. 187, see www.census.de, ID 15713 ) which Aspertini studied when it was in the collection of Giovanni Ciampolini in Rome, drawing it first in the lower tier of f. 32v-33 of his Codex Wolfegg and then in the present drawing. But by this time, and maybe already from 1526, the relief, owned by Giulio Romano, was in Mantua (see Faietti-Scaglietti 1995, p. 203, n.19 and pp. 290-91 under cat. dis. 75). Bober believes that because the present drawing is much more accurate than the Codex Wolfegg version, Aspertini must have seen it again in Mantua, rather than basing himself on the previous codex (in support of this argument one could for instance note the position of the head of the fallen gaul on the right hand page and the arm on the gaul on his right, both more faithful to the relief than the codex Wolfegg). Schweikhart does on the other hand believe that Aspertini could well have based himself on a previous recording and to support his argument one should both consider the possibility of other recordings by Aspertini not known to us, and that the artist might have had access to recordings by other artists (the relief was much studied in the Renaissance). For other links to a possible trip to Mantua see also left-hand pages of 1898,1123.3.13 and 1898,1123.3.36. The kneeling figure holding a body appears in another drawing by Aspertini in the Louvre (Faietti-Scaglietti 1995, cat. dis. 98r, p. 312). Lit: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London, 1957, f. 10v-11, pp. 13, 56-7; G. Schweikhart, 'Der Wolfegg Codex. Zeichnungen nach der Antike von Amico Aspertini', London, 1986, p. 83; P.P. Bober-R. Rubinstein, 'Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture', New York, 1986, under no. 154; M. Faietti-D. Scaglietti Kelescian , 'Amico Aspertini, Modena', 1995, under cat. dis. 98, p. 312.

For images of the codex Wolfegg see www.census.de, ID 60826

For a general introduction to the sketchbook see 1898,1123.3.1
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1898-1123-3-11
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