Amico Aspertini
Studies after the Antique
1494-1504
Physical Qualities
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, Sheet (irregular edges): 393 × 265 mm. (15 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1973.95
"The Death of Adonis and Four Male Torsos (recto)" is copied from the Roman sarcophagus of Adonis in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua and "A Prisoner Brought Before Marcus Aurelius (verso)" is copied from a relief on the Arch of Constantine
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Sketches and Sketchbook Pages', April 25-June 25, 1978.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, "Amico Aspertini 1474-1552: artista bizzarro nell'età di Dürer e Raffaello," Sept. 27, 2008 - Jan. 26, 2009, cat. 98.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, "Amico Aspertini 1474-1552: artista bizzarro nell'età di Dürer e Raffaello," Sept. 27, 2008 - Jan. 26, 2009, cat. 98.
Kathleen Wren Christian, "Empire Without End: Antiquities Collection in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527." New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, fig. 207, p. 315.
Andrea Emiliani and Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian. "Amico Aspertini 1474-1552: artista bizzarro nell'età di Dürer e Raffaello." Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008, cat. 98, repr.;
Alexander Dückers. "Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski." Berlin: G + H Verlag: Kupferstichkabinett, Sammlungen der Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, c. 1999, p. 32, fig. 10a, repr.;
Marzia Faietti, "New Drawings by Amico Aspertini," Master Drawings Vol. XXIX, No. 2 (Summer 1991), p. 153 and p. 169 n. 26
Denise Allen. "'Colore incarnato': Benvenuto Cellini's Ganymede and living stones" in "Carvings, Casts & Collectors : The Art of Renaissance Sculpture." Ed. Peta Motture, Emma Jones and Dimitrios Zikos, 176-193. London: V&A Publishing, 2013. p. 180, pl. 4.
Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in brown ink: "Trecitoglio no 10";
Markings: CM: Earl of Beauchamp
