Through the Sketchbook

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.

This web site and all images are for education purposes only.

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Many of the busy mythological drawings in this sketchbook, 1535, are of subjects taken from ancient sculpture, and probably inspired by works of art seen in Rome.

Amico Aspertini, the artist, was a muralist and an ‘eccentric’ church painter.

 

The sketchbook is bound in a vellum envelope with a flap, containing 48 numbered leaves with sketches on the right and left pages, and inside covers.

 

Pen and brown ink, and/or black chalk, with brown wash, heightened with white, on vellum.

 

Artist: Amico Aspertini.

1535 Italy
Mythological subjects, 1535. Image source: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings.
1535 - Italy
Two philosophers and a St. Sebastian in front of the Colosseum, 1535. Image source. British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings.