Urbis Romae Topographia

1544

Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliani

Author, Italian, 1488 - 1566

Giovanni Battista Palatino

Artist, Italian, c. 1515 - c. 1575

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 woodcut title, 5 initials and 24 woodcut illustrations including a fold-out map of Rome on p. 12 by Palatino

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

  • Dimensions

    book: 31.2 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm (12 5/16 x 8 7/16 x 1 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.84.1.a

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Associated Artworks

Annales Consulum, Dictatorum, Censorumque Romanorum

Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliani, Giovanni Battista Palatino

1560

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Libreria Antiquaria Perini, Verona); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Adams, Herbert Mayow. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600. Cambridge U.P, 1967: M-610.

Inscriptions

graphite by later hand on last page lower center: C7 / efum / €5300; remnant of early wrapper printed in brown and red ink: (not deciphered); bottom foredge in brown ink: TOPOG ROMAE B MARLIANI C [T?]RIV; spine in brown ink: Topogy. Romae MARL[?].

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