May 11, 2025
Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi c. 1500 Oil on panel, 42 x 33 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
ASPERTINI, Amico
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. ca. 1475, Bologna, d. 1552, Bologna)
Amico Aspertini was a Bolognese artist whose work spans the late 15th and early 16th centuries. In his own time he was famed as a portraitist. This portrait demonstrates the artist's mastery of the technique of painting in oils, which were much more flexible than tempera and allowed for far more precise tonal gradation. The play of light and shadow on the face models it and gives it volume, while light also creates the different textures of the clothes, skin and hair, etc.
