Templum Fortunae Virilis [The Temple of Portunus]
1550
Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Publisher, Italian, 1540 - 1550
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 26.6 × 34.5 cm (10 1/2 × 13 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 266 i/iii
Associated Artworks
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
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
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XV.268.99
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 10a
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered lower left, at the foot of a column: "N. B. F."
Lettered lower right: "Tomasius. Barl. Exc. M.D.L."
Lettered lower left: "Templum Fortunae Virilis ad ripas Tiberis in foro piscario nunc Mariae Aegiptiacae sacratum Romae"
Wikidata ID
Q77259550