Orthographia Partis Interioris Templi Divi Petri [Interior View of Saint Peter's Basilica]
1544/1572
Etcher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.2 × 53.9 cm (15 13/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
image: 33.4 × 47.5 cm (13 1/8 × 18 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.46.1.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 367, state 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
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 94a.
1932
Linzeler, André. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle. Paris, 1932: I.317, no. 51.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered upper left: "Michael Angelus Bonarota Invenit Stephanus Du Perac Fecit"
Lettered upper left and right: "Orthographia Partis Interioris Templi Divi Petri in Vaticano"
Wikidata ID
Q77259557