Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 6

1504 · Oratory of St Cecilia, San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna

religious

Scene 6 of the Cecilia cycle in the Oratory of St Cecilia, painted by Amico Aspertini, depicts the burial of Valerian and Tiburtius. This panel contains obvious allusions to the entombment of Christ, and reminiscences from Raphael's painting of the subject. The painting is in a very poor condition.

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Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 6

About the Artist

Amico Aspertini

1475 – 1552

Italian Mannerist painter from Bologna, where he was a pupil of Francia. Vasari describes him as having an eccentric personality and this comes out in his paintings, which are often bizarre in expression, like the Holy Family with Saints (St. Nicolas aux Champs, Paris). Aspetini was in Rome 1500-03 and his sketchbooks of Roman remains (British Museum, London) are important sources about contemporary knowledge of the antique.

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