Monstra della Giostra [A Tournament in the Cortile Belvedere]
c. 1565
Engraver, Italian, active 1560 - 1570
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 34.2 × 58 cm (13 7/16 × 22 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 373, state i/iv
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. 100a.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered LL: "Ant. Lafreri formis"
Lettered LR: "HCB fecit"
Wikidata ID
Q77259585