drawing
- Museum number
- Ff,1.62
- Description
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The battle of Centaurs and Lapiths; a mass of fighting figures with clubs and vessels raised as weapons
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1543 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 420 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing is a preparatory study for one of the six engraved crystals by Giovanni Bernardi inset into the Farnese casket (now in Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte Naples; the related work is fig. 242 in Parma Armani's monograph).
Lit.: J.D. Passavant, 'Tour of a German Artist in England', London, 1836, (translation from the original German ed. published in Frankfurt, 1833), II, p. 103 (as Giulio Romano); G. Waagen, 'Treasure of Art in Great Britain', London, 1854, I, p. 226 (as Giulio Romano); P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and his circle', London, 1962, I, no. 170, II, pl. 140; E. Parma Armani, 'Perin del Vaga: l'anello mancante', Genoa, 1986, under no. C.X, p. 334; E. Parma, in exhib. cat. (E. Parma ed.), Mantua, Palazzo Te, 'Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo', 2001, no. 174
Pouncey & Gere 1962
See 1946,0713.565
Literature: Rogers, Collection, facsimile engr. by W. W. Ryland (Weigel 5913).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1962/3 Nov-Sep, BM, Raphael and his Circle (P+G)
2001 Mar-June, Palazzo Te, Mantua, 'Perino del Vaga: between Raphael and Michelangelo'
- Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: John Barnard (L.1419, L.1420; without date, but in his collection by 1765, the date of Ryland's engraving. On verso, L 1420: "N°: 582". Sale, London, Greenwood, 1787, 23 Feb., lot 69, bt Thane)
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ff,1.62