Forma Partis Templi Divi Petri [Exterior Section of Saint Peter's Basilica]
1564
Engraver
Publisher, Italian, active 1552 - 1571
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.1 × 54.8 cm (15 3/8 × 21 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.9
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 369, state i/iii
Associated Artworks
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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. 96a.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered upper right: "Forma partis Templi Divi Petri in Vaticano", "Michael Angelus Bonarotus Inventor"
Lettered lower left and right: "Romae Vincentius Luchinus Excu." "Cum Privilegio MDLXIIII"
Lettered upper left: "Pio IIII P. M. Dicatum"
Wikidata ID
Q77259558