Septem Urbis Ecclesiae [Seven Churches of Rome]
1599
Engraver, Italian, c. 1550 - 1605
Publisher, Italian, c. 1550 - 1605
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36.6 × 48.4 cm (14 7/16 × 19 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.5
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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
Inscriptions
Lettered lower left: "Antonius Tempesta Florentinus figuravit"
Lettered lower right: "Cum privilegio Summi Pontificis ad Annos decem Superiorum permissu" and "Romae Iacobus Laurus sculpsit et excudit. 1599."
Lettered upper center: "Septem Urbis Ecclesiae cum earum Reliquiis Stationibus et Indulgentiis"
Wikidata ID
Q77259552