Un modello antico per la spalliera di Perino del Vaga, noto a Rubens

• Autores: Camila Colzani
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 169-170, 2023, págs. 63-68
• Idioma: italiano
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  • A small but significant addition is made to the subject of Perino del Vaga's relationship with antiquity, identifying the prototype of his design for the telamones in the spalliera now in the Palazzo Spada Gallery, Rome. In carrying out Pope Paul III Farnese's commission to decorate the base of the wall below Michelangelo's Last Judgement, Perino adapted an ancient model familiar to the artists of the time: the sarcophagus with a Pannychis (Bacchic festival) scene in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. That the stayress carved on the far left of the sarcophagus inspired the two telamones designed by Perino is confirmed by the perceptive intelligence of Rubens, whose intervention on the well-known sixteenth-century drawing of part of the composition in the British Museum shows full understanding of Perino's process, providing indication of the ancient model.