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drawing, sketch-book
Description
English: Aspertini sketch-book (so-called London I): 4th opening


left (1898,1123.3(4) verso) and right-hand page (1898,1123.3(5) recto) with Scythians leading Orestes (top left); Pylades supporting the unconscious Orestes; at the right Scythian guards leading Orestes and Pylades before Iphigenia at the shrine of Diana; below (left and right) a Bacchic orgy with a female satyr by a herm (left) and the drunken Silenus and other figures (right) c. 1535


Pen and brown ink, grey wash, small touches of white heightening, on vellum prepared with a green wash
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
1898,1123.3.4
Notes

The upper tier of the drawing is freely derived from a sarcophagus with stories of Orestes, today in Rome and split between Villa Albani and the Vatican Museums (C. Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. II, Berlin 1890, no. 168 and 168a, see www.census.de, ID 16441, Vatican, Museo Chiaramonti; for the Villa Albani's relief there is no image, but see also www.census.de, ID 157707 and Codex Coburgensis, f. 64, www.census.de, ID 22324) or possibly from another one today in Munich, Glyptotheque (Robert, cit., no. 167). The group on the right with the mourning figure behind it is found with variations also fol. 40v of the Codex Wolfegg (see Schweikhart 1986, pp. 93-4). The figure bending on the right of the left-hand page is very similar to one found in Aspertini's Entombent of Jacob's wife, a relief on the left hand side door of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, first tile on the left (the commission for the relief dates 11 August 1524; for the attribution of other reliefs believed to be by Aspertini, see Faietti-Scaglietti 1995, cat. dip. 42, pp. 180-1).

The lower tier is derived, with variations, from the left two thirds of the front of a Bacchic sarcophagus today in Naples (Bober-Rubinstein 1986, no. 70, p. 107, see www.census.de, ID 16443). Aspertini had drawn from the same sarcophagus also on the Codex Wolfegg, ff. 47v-48, upper tier. See also f. 1898,1123.3.39 (bottom right-hand sheet) for another connection with the same relief.

Lit.: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London, 1957, ff. 3v-4, p. 51; G. Cosmo, 'Aspertini e la scultura antica', in "Antologia di Belle Arti", XXI-XXII, 1984, p. 36 n33; P.P. Bober-R. Rubinstein, 'Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture', New York, 1986; M. Faietti-D. Scaglietti Kelescian, 'Amico Aspertini', Modena, 1995, p. 63, 177, 181; G. Schweikhart, 'Der Wolfegg Codex. Zeichnungen nach der Antike von Amico Aspertini', London, 1986, pp. 94, 115); A. Nesselrath, 'Das Fossombroner Skizzenbuch', London, 1993, p. 170.

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_1898-1123-3-4
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