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
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Forma Partis Templi Divi Petri [Exterior Section of Saint Peter's Basilica]
Italian 16th Century, Vincenzo Luchino
1564
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