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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Battle between Roman Legionaries and Barbarians wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Youths in Athletic Contests wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
"The commissioned copies after the Antique bear the unmistakable hallmark of Cassiano's taste. Although by different artists, there is a stylistic consistency to them that partly resulted from the initiative of the man who ordered them and partly from the artists who drew them. What would today be termed a "house style" was clearly imposed on his different contributors. The reasons for Cassiano's preference for a particular type of copy can only be guessed at. Divining his motives in this regard is made the more difficult because of his elusive character. As someone who absorbed rather than disseminated information, his exact intentions will probably never be known. Nevertheless it is probably safe to assume that he wished his copies to be drawn in pen and wash, rather than in pen alone; to be carefully finished, with the forms well defined by light and shade (an effect quickly and subtly achieved by wash); and to concentrate on detail, even to the extent of sometimes recording losses, breaks and other blemishes in the original. The resultant solidity of the object, complete with well-described particulars, strikes a contrast with the generally more schematic rendering in earlier copies of Antique sculpture, often drawn in pen and ink only. Curiously, a scale giving an idea of the measurements of an object, which is de rigueur today, was not thought necessary."
– Nicholas Turner, from The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1993 exhibition catalog produced by the British Museum
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Muses and Philosophers from Sarcophagus Relief wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Three Graces from Funerary Relief wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Story of Hippolytus & Phaedra Ancient Sarcophagus incorporated in Renaissance Tomb wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Battle between Romans and Gallic Barbarians wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Scene of Winemaking wash drawing ca. 1635 British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Acanthus Frieze with Tortoise wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Mask and Reclining Old Man from Sarcophagus Lid wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Young Scholar with Actors, Muses, Poets wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Funerary relief of C. Rubrius Urbanus wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Cupid and Psyche with garland-bearing Erotes wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Votive Relief in two registers wash drawing mid-17th century British Museum |
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Ara Pacis Relief wash drawing attributed to Bernardo Capitelli before 1639 British Museum |