Nude Male Figure Seated on the Ground, Amico Aspertini, ca. 1535–40

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Nude Male Figure Seated on the Ground, ca. 1535–40, Black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on brown-washed paper, Overall: 9 3/4 x 14 5/16in. ( x ), Drawings, Amico Aspertini (Italian, Bologna ca. 1474–1552 Bologna), The figure, posed on a shelf like projection ornamented with a scalloped valance, may be studied for one of the many monochrome façade decorations that Aspertini is said to have executed, above all in Bologna (Vasari 1568, vol

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