Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
1549
Engraver
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577
Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.1 × 47 cm (15 3/8 × 18 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 261 iii/iv
Associated Artworks
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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB
1544
The Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Artwork history & notes
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
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 5a
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered lower center: "An. Lafreri Romae. 1549"
Lettered upper center: "Pantheum Romanum nunc Mariae cognomento Rotundae notum ad antiquam suam effigiem et formam expressum"
Lettered lower right, within an amphora: "Labrum ex porphyrite...iusserunt"
Wikidata ID
Q77259549