The Death of Adonis and Four Male Torsos (recto); A Prisoner Brought before Marcus Aurelius (verso)

c. 1500

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Amico Aspertini

The Death of Adonis and Four Male Torsos (recto); A Prisoner Brought before Marcus Aurelius (verso)

Amico Aspertini

The Death of Adonis and Four Male Torsos (recto); A Prisoner Brought before Marcus Aurelius (verso)

c. 1500

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 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.

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