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Monday
Feb172020

Amico Aspertini: Eccentricity

DateMonday, February 17, 2020 at 9:00AM

Amico Aspertini - Heroic Head - c. 1496 - Tempera on wood, 37,5 x 36,5 cm - Christian Museum, Esztergom (click photo for larger image)Italian painter Amico Aspertini (c. 1475-1552) was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor whose complex, eccentric, and eclectic style anticipates Mannerism. He is considered one of the leading exponents of the Bolognese School of painting. From Bologna, he was a pupil of Francesco Francia, and was considered a prodigy. Giorgio Vasari describes Aspertini as having an eccentric personality, and this characteristic emerges from his paintings, which are often bizarre in expression. 

The monochrome painting featured here, with the stone-like frame, resembles a relief. However, it is interesting to note that the bust is not in the painted frame…but before it.

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