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drawing, sketch-book
Description
English: Aspertini sketch-book (so-called London I): 20th opening


left (1898,1123.3(20) verso) and right-hand page (1898,1123.3(21) recto) with Amazonomachy frieze, battle between Greeks and the legendary female warriors the Amazons (upper part of opening); group of naked men and women, one on horseback (lower part of opening) c. 1535


Black chalk, brown wash, 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
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Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 184 millimetres (each page)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1898,1123.3.20
Notes

As noted by Bober the upper tier derives from a sarcophagus preserved in the Renaissance at the entrance to SS. Cosma and Damiano. It is now fragmentary and divided among several collections (part of the cover is here in the British Museum, no. 2299; Bober-Rubinstein 1986, no. 142), two fragments in the Vatican and three in Palazzo Salviati in Rome (see D. Grassinger, 'Die mytologischen Sarkophage' (Teil 1), Berlin 1999, pp. 239-40, no. 100, pls. 90.4, 96, census ID 25585). Aspertini's interpretation is very free, unlike the earlier rendering in the Wolfegg Codex (ff. 32v-33 upper tier; Schweikhart 1986, pp. 81-2). For a painted version of the same subject and further comments see Faietti-Scaglietti, cat. dip. 41, p. 179-80 (for which see also 1898,1123.3.35). The lower tier is also a free transcription of the front of a Niobid sarcophagus today in Wilton House (Bober-Rubinstein 1986, no. 107, p. 139, see www.census.de, ID 210834), but in the Renaissance was found walled high on the façade of a house at the foot of the Capitol Hill in Rome (see Bober, id, p. 64).

Lit: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London, 1957, ff. 19v-20, pp. 63-4; G. Schweikhart, 'Der Wolfegg Codex. Zeichnungen nach der Antike von Amico Aspertini', London, 1986, pp. 81-2; P.P. Bober-R. Rubinstein, 'Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture', New York, 1986, under no 107; M. Faietti-D. Scaglietti Kelescian , 'Amico Aspertini', Modena, 1995, p. 180

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_1898-1123-3-20
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