Ichnographia Templi Divi Petri [Plan of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome]

1569

Étienne Dupérac

Engraver, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Étienne Dupérac

Publisher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48 × 41.8 cm (18 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 368, state i/iv

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This rectangular, light brown cover is marbled with darker brown, and the edges are worn and chipped. The spine, to our left, is bound by a light tan strip and divided vertically by five projecting ribs spaced along its height. Four small dark brown spots appear on the upper right corner, with a scattering of similar spots over the lower left section.

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

1932

  • Linzeler, André. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle. Paris, 1932: I.317, no. 52.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: VIII.104.52

2016

  • Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

Inscriptions

Lettered upper left and right: "Ichnographia Templi Divi Petri Romae in Vaticano ex esemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti Florentini a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi in hanc formam cum suis modulis accurate proporionaeteque delineata et in lucem aedita anno Domini MDLXIX"

Wikidata ID

Q77259553

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