"Un quadretto d'una città che abrugia": un dipinto di Amico Aspertini ritrovato

• Autores: Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 137, 2018, págs. 40-49
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The recent discovery of a painting by Amico Aspertini, recorded in the 1623 and 1633 invetories of the collection of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi in his villa on the Pincian Hill in Rome, has revealed an interesting facet of the Bolognese painter's activity. The subject, which remains hard to interprete, has been studied with a view to clarifying its underlying cultural and religious references, now identified in a passage from the Book of Revelation. This foretells the destruction by fire of Rome/Babylon, "the dwelling-place of devils", confirmed by the presence of animals such as the giraffe and frogs, symbols of vice and sin. The work can thus be seen as a figurative adaptation of themes that were spreading by way of Luther's sermons in the restless climate of the first decades of the sixteenth century.