Areae et Palatii Pontificii Vaticani Topographia [A Papal Blessing in Saint Peter Square]

1567

Étienne Dupérac

Etcher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Bartolomeo Faleti

Publisher, Italian, active 1560 - 1570

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Etching

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.1 × 55.4 cm (15 3/8 × 21 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Huelsen, no. 92.c

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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.

Inscriptions

Lettered UL: "Michaeli Bonello Card. Alex"
Lettered LR: "Typis Bart. faletij Rome 1567 Cum Privilegio"

Wikidata ID

Q77259577

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