Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the third sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 3 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Three drawings: figure with griffins, leafy relief, breastplate activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Kneeling figure of Arimasp in combat with two rearing griffins bounded downwards with volute and palmette ornamentation
  • Visible reflectance photograph Sketch fragment of a veduta drawn with black chalk from the garden of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli with terraces, stairs and fountains
  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk drawing of a vine relief with Eros between a lion and a hind on a soffit from the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine
  • Visible reflectance photograph Details drawn in black chalk, including two axisymmetrically placed griffins, of the breastplate from the colossal statue of Mars Ultor in the Capitoline Museums.
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Album 1, Leaf 4

The drawing on the top left shows an Arimaspian. According to the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 490/480 BC–c. 430/420 BC), the Arimaspians (or Arimasps) were a one-eyed people who lived in northern Scythia (probably the Carpathians). They were constantly at war with the griffins – winged animals with an eagle’s head and a lion’s body, as seen in the drawing.

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