Wooden Falsework Supporting a Vault, 1561

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series Title

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

image: 32.3 × 46.6 cm (12 11/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

sheet: 40.2 × 53.9 cm (15 13/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Rubach, no. 370, state i/ii

Accession Number

2012.46.1.10

Artists / Makers

Jacob Bos (engraver) Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580

Antonio da Sangallo (artist after) Italian, 1483 - 1546

Antonio Lafreri (publisher) Italian, 1512 - 1577

Michelangelo (artist after) Florentine, 1475 - 1564

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Inscription

Lettered lower right: "Iacobus Bossius Belga Summa diligentia circino excepit in aesque incidit"
Lettered lower left: "Ant.o Lafrerj Sequanj Formis Roma Anno 1561"
Lettered upper left: "La presente Figura dimostra una armadura o vero Invacallatura delle volte di San Pietro di Roma fatta da M.ro Ant.o da Sangallo et ancora messa in opera da Michael Ang. Buonaroto pur nelle medisime volte fatte da luj. e volendo sapere..."

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dowling, Paul M.

Bibliography

1921: Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 97a.