Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi

Amico Aspertini trained in the family workshop and was influenced by artists of the school of Ferrara such as Ercole de’Roberti, Lorenzo Costa and Francesco Francia. He worked as a painter and sculptor and was also a fine draughtsman, as numerous surviving designs and sketches reveal. Vasari described him as a capricious and eccentric man, also wittily recounting the extreme rapidity with which As…