drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1862,0712.420
- Description
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Aspertini album (so-called London II):
Folio 27 recto (drawing numbered 53): Studies of architectural details, and a head wearing a Roman helmet and a satyr head
Folio 27 verso (drawing numbered 54): Nativity scene with studies of architectural details
Recto and verso: black chalk with brown wash
- Production date
- 1530-1540
- Dimensions
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Height: 219 millimetres
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Width: 159 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the album to which this sheet belongs, see 1862,0712.394
f.27 recto (no. 53)
Bober (1957, p. 85) notes that the portion of Doric epistyle beneath the satyr recalls folio 60 of the so-called Codex Coner in the Soane Museum in London by Bernardo della Volpaia (see www.census.de, ID 205981), even though Aspertini gives five guttae instead of six and misunderstands the triglyph. The source is to be found in the frieze of the sepulchral monument of via Nomentana in Rome and, like in the case of f. 1862,0712.418 verso, it seems that the present drawing is generally closer to the recording of that frieze found in the codex Barberini (f. 38v, www. census.de, ID 10000184).
Lit.: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London 1957
f. 27 verso (no 54)
As noted by Bober (1957, p. 85) the putto at the bottom right of the sheet is likely to belong to the group of putti found on the following sheet. In the background some farm implements and cows with an angel hovering above. On the right a marble cantharos and along the lower margin some cornice and base mouldings.
Lit.: P.P. Bober, 'Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini. Sketchbooks in the British Museum', London 1957
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,0712.420
