1932.311: Two Candelabra; verso: Slight Sketch of a Horn-Shaped Object

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.311

People

Amico Aspertini, Italian (Bologna, Italy c. 1474 - 1552 Bologna, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist

Title

Two Candelabra; verso: Slight Sketch of a Horn-Shaped Object

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th-16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298526

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

Dimensions

25.7 x 17.7 cm (10 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Possible watermark (mostly cut-off) on upper right edge. Tip of a triangle within part of a circle. Beta required.
• drawing: verso, center, brown ink: Appears to be a small doodle (?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.311

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 45, p. 38; vol. 2, repr. fig. 41, as Venetian 15th century
• Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1958), repr., no. 3A
• Wendy Stedman Sheard, Antiquity in the Renaissance, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1978), no. 117, n.p., as North Italian artist working in Rome (?), last quarter 15th C.
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 34, p. 21, repr. as Venetian School, last quarter of the 15th century
• Hans-Ulrich Cain, Römische Marmorkandelaber, Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz am Rhein, Germany, 1985), no. 160, p. 205, pl. 93,1
• Marzia Faietti and Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Bologna e l'umanesimo 1490-1510, exh. cat., Nuova Alfa Editoriale (Bologna, 1988), p. 280 n.1, repr. p. 280
• Marzia Faietti and Amico Faietti, "New Drawings by Amico Aspertini", Master Drawings (1991), vol. XXIX, no. 2, pp. 169, under fn. 32
• H. von Kügelgen, "Aspertini, Amico", K. G. Saur (Munich, Germany, 1992), p. 443
• Marzia Faietti and Arnold Nesselrath, "'Bizar più che reverso di medaglia.' Un codex avec grotesques, monstres et ornements du jeune Amico Aspertini", Revue de l'Art (1995), no. 107, pp. 44-88, p. 79 and p. 85, n. 140, fig. 82
• Marzia Faietti and Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian, Amico Aspertini, Artioli Editore (Modena, 1995), no. 12, p. 230, under "Disegni", repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella II")

Exhibition History

• Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/18/1958 - 01/04/1959
• Antiquity in the Renaissance, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 04/06/1978 - 06/06/1978
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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